The ruling faction of the Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde on Monday accused the leaders of the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party faction and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackrey) of stirring the violence that erupted in Antarwali Sarati village, the ground zero of the Maratha quota agitation, in Jalna district of Maharashtra in September.

Police had used baton-charge and fired teargas shells to disperse a violent mob on Dhule-Solapur road in Ambad tehsil of Jalna district on September 1 amid opposition to shift fasting Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange to a hospital, according to news wire PTI.