"If I am arrested, the entire Maharashtra will be set on fire," he had said addressing a meeting in Chiplun on Monday evening.

Sporadic incidents of violence in Nashik, 130 held

Nashik, October 21:

Barring some sporadic incidents of stone-pelting at different localities in Nashik since morning after the news of MNS chief Raj Thackeray's arrest reached in Nashik, the city was well under control and peaceful, police said.

City Police Commissioner Himanshu Roy said, "We have so far arrested more than 100 activists of MNS, including MNS state unit general secretaries-Vasant Gite and Atul Chandak and other local leaders.”

Roy said that situation was well under control and they were prepared to face any eventuality as police security had been beefed up in the city.

As many as 15 Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation buses, running in city were stoned by MNS activists at different places, while some shops including Yes Bank on Sharanpur road were also stoned.

MNS members including its women activists staged a roadblockade at central bus stand and also made an attempt to burn effigies of state Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil, police added.

Meanwhile Gite, Chandak and other local leaders, who were held under preventive arrest on Monday evening, were produced in a local court.

30 MNS activists arrested in Kolhapur

Kolhapur, October 21:

Thirty Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists were arrested for vandalising the shops, owned by North Indian, in Kolhapur after the arrest of MNS chief Raj Thackeray, police said.

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