Maharashtra BJP MLAs hold protest in Nagpur against Priyank Kharge's remark on Savarkar

Reacting to Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge's comment suggesting the removal of the portrait of India's freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar from the Karnataka state Assembly building, BJP MLAs in Maharashtra held a protest and raised slogans on the stairs of Vidhan Bhavan, Nagpur on Thursday. The Maharashtra Assembly is in the midst of its winter session in Nagpur. Priyank Kharge on Thursday told reporters that he thinks that the photo of Savarkar should not be in the Karnataka Assembly as his "ideology incites hatred".