Approve Bill Proposing Death Penalty For Rapists: Ex Maharashtra Minister Urges President
NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) leader and former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has demanded that President Droupadi Murmu approve the Shakti bill passed by the Maharashtra legislature that prescribes death penalty for rapists.
NCP (SP) leaders and women workers are protesting against the delay in clearing the bill by wearing red ribbons at the pedestal of Mahatma Gandhi's statue near the state secretariat.
President Murmu is on a three-day visit to Maharashtra.
