Accusing the state government of callousness in handling a weeklong flood situation in western Maharashtra and tweaking the eligibility criteria for flood relief, the Opposition launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday. Making a casteist slur, it further said that the head of the state had the DNA of Peshva Bajirao II. The Congress demanded that Fadnavis and his Karnataka counterpart B S Yediyurappa should be booked for culpable homicide because they failed to manage the discharge of water that caused flooding and killed 37 people.

Congress campaign Chief Nana Patole, who quit the BJP during Narendra Modi's first term as Prime Minister, reacted to the CM's earlier statement that he (Fadnavis) did not take him very seriously, saying, "I welcome the fact that you don't take my statements seriously. But I must say that you should consider my rightful demand for better disaster management. And if you cannot do that, then, you should at least tell us whether you take the deaths seriously. You must act and save lives."