Security has been assured to the Color Television Network which is telecasting the reality show.

Thackeray had threatened that the Sena would halt the shooting of the reality show and intensify agitation unless the two Pakistani artists and the former lawyer of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab are removed from the show.

The state Home Minister R.R. Patil said Friday that security has been beefed up at the “Bigg Boss” house in Lonavala, after Sena workers had protested outside the house on Tuesday.

Additional security would be provided at the site of the show’s shoots, Patil added.

Earlier, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan too assured that the government would maintain law and order and not allow the reality show to be disrupted. “The government would take stern action against those who try to disturb law and order,” he said.

In response to the government’s action, the working president of Shiv Sena Uddhav Thackeray lambasted the chief minister at a press conference in Aurangabad.

Uddhav said that the chief minister as behaving as if he was the chief minister of some Pakistani province. Chavan, Uddhav said, has forgotten that he is the chief minister of Maharashtra. Coming down heavily on Chavan, Uddhav said first Chavan provided protection to actor Shah Rukh Khan’s Hindi film ‘My Name is Khan’, and now he has announced that security would be provide to the two Pakistani artists participating in the reality show “Big Boss.”

Criticizing Chavan, the Sena leader said that the chief minister was least concerned about the common men and the police, and did not care if these people lived or died, but he is more concerned about the protection of the Pakistani artists, Uddhav said.

In a remark laced with humor, Uddhav said that the recent remarks of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf might have made Chavan happy. Now he should tell Musharraf to dispatch all terrorists to India and assure Musharraf that he would take care of them just like he took care of Kasab.