A day after a host of his party workers including a former minister were arrested in the communal riots in Amravati, BJP leader and ex-CM Devendra Fadnavis accused the MVA government of sponsoring the minority protests that led to a riot-like situation in many places in Maharashtra last weekend. He said the Shiv Sena-led government was partisan to the people from the minorities who have been let free despite being responsible for arson and violence.

Addressing the BJP’s state executive on Tuesday, Fadnavis said protests by Muslims against the events that did not take place in Tripura were part of an experiment to be implemented countrywide against the Modi government. “It is not a simple incident. Since they don’t have anything against Modi’s development agenda, they have come up with an idea of polarising the minorities and creating anarchy in the country,” he alleged.