The Indian Express / by Chandan Haygunde

To support his claims, the VBA chief attached a news report with his application that stated Sharad Pawar’s letter to Uddhav Thackeray demanded the formation of an SIT to probe the Koregaon Bhima violence.
Senior politician Prakash Ambedkar on Friday filed an application before the Koregaon Bhima Commission of Inquiry claiming that National Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar had around January 24, 2020, given a letter to then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, saying the violence (in Koregaon Bhima on January 1, 2018) was a conspiracy hatched by the previous government under leadership of Devendra Fadnavis.
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