A mere 24 hours before the first legislative session of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi kicked off in Maharashtra on Monday, the partners in the alliance that comprises the newly formed government, found themselves in a sticky situation over Rahul Gandhi's Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar remark on Saturday.

March to protest
The BJP held a protest march on Sunday evening to oppose Gandhi's "insult to the great freedom fighter." The march, which kicked off at 4 PM at the Veer Savarkar Udyan in Borivli and which was scheduled to conclude at around 9 PM in Dadar's Shivaji Park (Veer Savarkar Smarak), was held by Mangal Prabhat Lodha, president BJP's Mumbai unit, along with BJP MP Gopal Shetty and Borivli MLA Sunil Rane. Around 500 people holding placards, posters and banners condemning Gandhi's remark, walked along SV Road near Kandivli, via Malad towards Dadar.