Speaker Nana Patole dropped a bomb in the lower house on Monday by declaring that Maharashtra Chief Secretary Ajoy Mehta would have to appear in the House and apologise to the members for the state administration cold-shouldering legislators who raised several issues of propriety.

He said as the administration hadn't bothered to answer the MLAs within a stipulated time, he was holding the CS responsible and summoning him to the Assembly. However, when Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis urged him to withdraw the harsh order, Patole acquiesced but with a rider that he would not tolerate the administration's insensitive approach henceforth.