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Senior NCP leaders Ajit Pawar, Jayant Patil, Sunil Tatkare and Chhagan Bhujbal and a large number of party workers were involved in the protest (Image: Twitter/NCP)
A letter signed by Pawar, Patil and Bhujbal to the Mumbai police commissioner claimed that the Indic Tales and Hindu Post websites posted objectionable articles against Phule, who is considered a pioneer in the field of women’s education.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders on Wednesday staged a sit-in outside the Mumbai Police Commissioner’s office, demanding action against two websites for alleged objectionable articles on noted social reformer Savitribai Phule.
Senior NCP leaders Ajit Pawar, Jayant Patil, Sunil Tatkare and Chhagan Bhujbal and a large number of party workers participated in the protest.
A letter signed by Pawar, Patil and Bhujbal to the Mumbai police commissioner claimed that the Indic Tales and Hindu Post websites posted objectionable articles against Phule, who is considered a pioneer in the field of women’s education.
The letter alleged that this act was done with the aim of inciting people. It has been said in the letter that insulting Savitribai Phule in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Shahu-Phule-Ambedkar’s Maharashtra is bad and we strongly oppose it.
On Monday, Bhujbal wrote to Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, demanding action against a website and those who allegedly wrote objectionable articles on Phule.
“The portal is destroying history in the name of rearranging history. This anti-social trend needs to be crushed,” he had said, adding that the state government should take the issue seriously and ban the website.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI,