pune bjp city mp pradeep rawat has condemned the recent attack on senior sanskrit scholar shrikant bahulkar by shiv sena activists led by their city chief rambhau parekh for helping author james lane who made some objectionable statements about shivaji in his new book shivaji hindu king in islamic india rawat met bahulkar on friday and apologised for the incidentthese people sena activists have to realise that the book is by lane and bahulkar only explained to him some sanskrit references he has nothing to do with the objectionable statements rawat told tnn later in the day sena mlc neelam gorhe too expressed displeasure over the attacksources told tnn that gorhe has briefed party leader uddhav thackeray about the incident sena mla deepak paigude was unavailable for comment but sources said that he tried his best to extract an apology from parekhmeanwhile when contacted parekh told tnn that his party workers were not at fault we wrote to bahulkar 10 days ago asking him to explain the objectionable statements and whether he condemned them but he took the matter lightly parekh claimedparekh said he respected mehendale but failed to understand as to why mehendale took the issue personally b a h u l k a r said he did not receive any letter from the sena and in fact had initiated remedial action much before the sena jumped on the bandwagon many reputed institutions i am associated with condemned the statements and i myself drafted the resolutions he told tnnalarmed by mehendales action rawat sought help from the civic conservancy staff to scrounge all the garbage bins from bharat itihas sanshodhak mandal working base of mehendale up to loni to see if the pages could be recovered but he had no luck mehendale is so disgusted with sena activists that he has announced that he will not publish the last two volumes of shivajis biography i have 3000 written pages left with me which i will seal and hand over to pradeep rawat with instructions that if anybody so desired the volumes are to be published only after my death he told tnn the first volume comprising 1080 pages was published in 1996 this was followed by two more volumes comprising 1350 pages another 450 pages would have completed the biographymehendales work has been so comprehensive that there is no part of shivajis life and work that has not been covered he learnt persian french portuguese and dutch to read literature on shivaji wrote by officers from these countries during their stay in india interestingly shiv sena leader raj thackeray was so impressed by the volumes written by mehendale that he bought 100 copies of the biography