Maharashtra Won't Implement Central Farm Laws: Speaker Nana Patole Tells Protesting Farmers Maharashtra Won't Implement Central Farm Laws: Speaker Nana Patole Tells Protesting Farmers "I am first a farmer, then the occupant of a constitutional post," Speaker Nana Patole told the protesting farmers in Mumbai today. "We all know on whose directions the Governor functions," Speaker Nana Patole said. Highlights Farmers, mostly from Nashik district, are protesting in Mumbai NCP's Sharad Pawar has also extended support to farmers' protest Mumbai: Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole today told the hundreds of protesting farmers at Mumbai's Azad Maidan that the three new contentious agricultural laws passed by Parliament last September will not be implemented in the state. The farmers, mostly from Nashik district, have gathered in the state capital for the past two days in solidarity with thousands of their comrades gearing up for a massive tractor rally in Delhi today against these new pieces of legislation.