Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader and former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday urged President Droupadi Murmu to approve the Shakti bill passed by the state legislature that prescribes death penalty for rapists.

Deshmukh said NCP (SP) leaders and women workers will protest by wearing red ribbons at the pedestal of Mahatma Gandhi's statue near the state secretariat in Mumbai on Tuesday against the delay in clearing of the bill, news agency PTI reported.