Mumbai BJP: ‘Modi’ remark row: Mumbai BJP chief, party workers booked for holding protest near Mantralaya

Police have registered a case in opposition to BJP’s Mumbai unit chief Mangal Prabhat Lodha and 31 others for staging a protest close to the Mantralaya right here, an official stated on Thursday.

The protest was organised by the BJP on Wednesday in opposition to Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole’s remarks referring to ‘Modi’, he stated.,

Throughout the protest, police took Lodha and others into custody they usually had been taken to the Marine Drive police station later, he stated, including they had been booked below part 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Patole, who had a short stint with the BJP as an MP earlier, has kicked up an argument along with his purported comment that he might “beat up, badmouth Modi”.

He has, nonetheless, denied that he was talking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However the BJP has been focusing on Patole over the remarks, with a number of leaders terming his clarification as false.

The saffron celebration has been demanding strict police motion in opposition to Patole and in search of his arrest.