The Maharashtra Congress on Friday asked the BJP leaders in the state to clarify their stand on the warning given by a BJP parliamentarian from Uttar Pradesh that MNS chief Raj Thackeray will not be allowed set foot in Ayodhya unless he apologises for "humiliating" north Indians in the past.

The Congress, which shares power with the Shiv Sena and the NCP in Maharashtra, also accused the opposition party of using Raj Thackeray, independent MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana, who were arrested in connection with a row over Hanuman Chalisa, as its "puppets".