New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has said that the Maharashtra government led by Eknath Shinde is “100%” responsible for the deaths of 13 people during an awards ceremony attended by Union home minister Amit Shah amidst very hot weather on April 16.Speaking at an organisational meeting for the Mumbai civic polls, Pawar called for a judicial probe into the deaths.“It was 100 per cent the state government’s responsibility, as they organised the event, keeping elections in mind. A sitting judge must investigate this incident and the actual facts must come out,” ANI, the news agency, quoted him as having said.Lakhs of people from far-off Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat were brought to the venue ground in Kharghar for the Maharashtra Bhushan award ceremony on April 16. As has been reported, the attendees had been sitting under the sun for more than six hours. Two tents collectively accommodating around 1,000 were reserved for VIPs, media, and others with separate entries.In his speech, Shah had even praised the large crowd for braving the severe heat to present at the ceremony.Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who leads the Shiv Sena party from which the Eknath Shinde faction broke away, has demanded the resignations of CM Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis.Thackeray asked why the government could not prepare adequately considering that earlier iterations of the same award ceremony had passed without occasion.