Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Saturday said that the violence which took place in Maharashtra is aimed at destabilising the Maha Vikas Aghadi government.

Without naming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP said that said the state government is firm in the saddle and claimed that such incidents might happen in future too.

He also said that by raising the bogey of violence, the Opposition will meet the state governor and write letters to the Union home ministry claiming that the law and order situation in Maharashtra is deteriorating.

‘Real faces behind this violence will be exposed in the inquiry’

Real faces behind this violence will be exposed in the inquiry of the state Home Ministry, he added.

A mob hurled stones and damaged shops in Amravati this morning during a bandh allegedly called by BJP. The violence on Saturday occurred during the bandh against Friday’s stone-pelting incidents during rallies held by Muslim organisations in various districts in protest against the Tripura communal violence.

A police official from Amravati said that hundreds of people, many of them holding saffron flags in their hands and raising slogans, came out on streets in the Rajkamal Chowk area of Amravati and a few of them hurled stones at the shops and damaged them forcing the cops to conduct lathicharge.

20 arrested, eight cops injured in stone-pelting 

Police have so far arrested 20 people in connection with Friday’s violence and the identification of other accused is going on through CCTVs and other sources.

Muslims across the state had taken out a protest rally against the communal violence in Tripura during which stones were pelted at cops and shops in Nanded, Malegaon, Amaravati and some other places.

In Nanded city, eight police personnel sustained injuries in stone-pelting and the mob also damaged four vehicles of police.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis has said it was wrong to organise rallies in the state for an incident that “never occurred” in Tripura and appealed to people to exercise restraint.