Patil’s death has given another opportunity to the opposition to hit back at the government and draw political mileage. The opposition parties, Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), have threatened to raise the issue in the upcoming budget session, which will corner the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena. They have said the government should arrest the officials involved in the land acquisition process during 2009-2013. Even though the Congress and NCP were in power, they are pushing for officials who did not follow the land acquisition procedure to be arrested.