Party spokesman Ajit Jogi demanded an ``impartial'' probe into the role of the Sena saying it was shocking that I&B Minister Pramod Mahajan read out a statement in which Thackeray was quoted as having praised Sena activists for their ``agitation.'' Declining to single out Thackeray as the one who instigated the violence, Jogi said it was for the law-enforcement agencies to find out.

Meanwhile, a fresh controversy appears to be brewing between the BJP and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra with Deputy Chief Minister Gopinath Munde declaring today that action against the 14 arrested Shiv Sena activists in connection with the attack on the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai would proceed according to law.

``We have taken action against the activists and it willproceed according to law'', Munde told reporters here, a day after Chief Minister Manohar Joshi said no action would be initiated against them as the Pakistan cricket tour controversy has been resolved.

Even as Munde said this, in Mumbai, all the fourteen arrested Shiv Sainiks, including Vibhag Pramukh Vinod Khopkar, were released on bail by the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A A A Kidwai of the 37th Court, today. They were released on a personal bond of Rs 10,000 each this evening.