In order to ensure that the residents of Mumbai and Thane are not inconvenienced, president of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Raj Thackeray asked his party workers to withdraw their call for a bandh on August 22 in protest against the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) summons to him to appear before it in the Kohinoor Mills land deal case.

On Tuesday, Thackeray issued a statement to the party leaders and workers asking them to exercise restraint and maintain peace. The ED officials grilled his former partner in the real estate venture and son of ex-CM Manohar Joshi for eight hours on Monday.