The parties were protesting the removal of the statue of Dadaji Konddev from Lal Mahal complex by the Pune Municipal Corporation on Monday. Stray incidents of stone-pelting were reported in the early hours of the day.

Sena and BJP activist stopped the Pune-Mumbai Singhad Express and Indore Pune Express train in Lonavala for some time until police intervened. Police arrested seven Sena workers. In Pune city police arrested 80 MNS workers who were threatening shop owners.

Pune rural police foiled attempts by Sena-BJP workers to block the old Pune-Mumbai expressway. Police took into custody Pune Sena legislator Chandrakant Mokate and 200 party workers for trying to disrupt peace. Police also detained Sena spokeswoman and legislator Neelam Gorhe and five Sena workers when they tried to stage a demonstration at Tilak Square.

The Nationalist Congress Party workers held a demonstration in front of Mahatma Gandhi's statue at the Pune railway station Tuesday afternoon protesting against the unruly act of the opposition councilors.

For the first time Sena chief Bal Thackeray, his son the Sena's working president Uddhav and Thackeray's estranged nephew the MNS chief got a muted response from the people.

Adding more insult to the Thackeray family were the current affairs Marathi TV channels that criticized the Monday incident. Participants in the debate demanded that the civic body recover money from the Sena, BJP and MNS for the damage caused to the property.

Sena and BJP leaders on Monday attacked the office of Sambhaji Brigade, a Maratha organization that had been agitating for the removal of the statue, which was part of the sculpture at Lal Mahal depicting a young Shivaji, along with his mother Jijamata, tilling the soil of Pune with a golden plow.

Chief Minister Ashok Chavan downplayed the issue saying the shifting of the statue by PMC was within the jurisdiction of the civic body and that the state government would not intervene.