Earlier, moving an unofficial resolution demanding separate state of Vidarbha for its overall development in the Assembly, Sudhir Mungantiwar (BJP) said the State should recommend the Centre to give a separate status of statehood to Vidarbha under the constitutional provisions.

Mungantiwar said that the demand for Vidarbha state was not new. He said Dr B R Ambedkar, former prime minister Lal Babadur Shastri, Saryodaya leader Vinoba Bhave and economist Chintaman Deshmukh and others had supported the demand.