kolhapurnashik rightwing leader sambhaji bhides recent remarks against mahatma gandhi continued to draw criticism from different quarters on monday political leaders from the opposition camp as well as the ruling alliance sought a suitable response from the governmentin karad former chief minister and senior congress leader prithviraj chavan asked deputy chief minister devendra fadnavis to at least clarify if bhide had violated any law by making the objectionable statement against gandhiin nashik state food and civil supplies minister chhagan bhujbal sought immediate police action against bhide and said the prime minister too should be informed of bhides irresponsible comments on mahatma gandhis family and social reformer jyotiba phulechavan known for his calm attitude had demanded strict action against bhide in the assembly a few days ago an fir was then registered at amravati on monday chavan said an fir was registered a few days ago however fadnavis who is also home minister is yet to tell people if bhide has violated any law by making crass statements against the person who is revered across the world at least fadnavis should tell whether the law is violated or not as per the indian penal code or does the government want him bhide to go scot free and continue to disturb the society and spark riotsthe former cm claimed people will not believe bjp leaders claim that bhide and bjp have no relationship no one will believe that everyone knows there is a web of organisations working with the same motive even after mahatma gandhi was killed they had claimed that they had nothing to do with nathuram godse but they should know why their parent organisation rss was banned by sardar vallabhbhai patel after gandhi was killed the investigation should be done into who funds bhides organisation said chavanresponding to questions in nashik bhujbal pointed out that prime minister narendra modi had met bhide in the past modi is visiting pune on tuesday for a programme my request to the personalities who share the dais with our pm in pune is that they should apprise him of bhides irresponsible statements he said the police must immediately arrest bhide and put him behind bars for such irresponsible statements that hurt the sentiments of people he added according to bhujbal he is not aware if anyone is guiding bhide to make such statements to deliberately draw out peoples reaction with some vested interest in mind only an insane person can make such remarks against gandhiji and jyotiba phule said bhujbalthe nashik unit of the ajit pawar faction of ncp on monday staged a demonstration in front of the district collectorate to protest against bhide for his controversial remarks a delegation of ncp led by district president ravindra pagar and city unit president ranjan thakre met additional district collector babasaheb pardhe and handed over a memorandum seeking action against bhide protest in sanglicongress supporters leaders of progressive outfits and women in large numbers protested against sambhaji bhide in sangli congress leader vishal patil said