NEW DELHI: A Maharastra MLA on Wednesday selected a singular option to current his stance within the state legislative meeting. Sharad Sonawane, the MLA from Junnar, arrived on the Maharashtra legislature wearing a leopard-print outfit to protest the rising variety of leopard-related incidents throughout the state.His demonstration got here hours after a leopard in Nagpur’s Pardi space injured seven individuals earlier than being captured by the forest division. On being requested by reporter about his dress-up, Sonawane mentioned, “An emergency must be declared for leopard assaults within the state. I’ve been elevating this challenge since 2014, however the authorities has saved ignoring me.”Additional providing recommendations to cope with the problem, he added, “Rescue centres must be made, and the leopards must be trapped and saved within the centres…”At Vidhan Bhavan, the Shiv Sena legislator mentioned leopard assaults had claimed 55 lives in Junnar taluka of Pune district previously three months. He mentioned residents have been residing in fixed concern and urged the state to arrange rescue services able to accommodating as much as 2,000 leopards in each Junnar taluka and Ahilyanagar district.Moreover, responding to Forest Minister Ganesh Naik’s assertion a day earlier that goats can be launched in forests to divert leopards, Sonawane mentioned the measure wouldn’t work, arguing that leopards more and more occupy sugarcane fields and areas close to human habitation.He demanded that the federal government declare a “state emergency” and provoke the seize of a minimum of 2,000 leopards for placement in rescue centres.