India, July 10 -- Despite his own party leading the Maharashtra government, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Sudhir Mungantiwar on Friday questioned in the state legislative assembly about the "delay" in passing a resolution seeking the Bharat Ratna for Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar.

Earlier, in March, Mungantiwar had moved a resolution in the assembly seeking the posthumous conferment of the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

Mungantiwar raised the matter on the last day of the monsoon session and said that Speaker Rahul Narwekar had assured the House on March 5 that the resolution would be taken up "at the earliest," but it did not figure in the List of Business during the previous budget ses...