The Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Madhya Pradesh government has finally taken action against Congress MLA Arif Masood, who had recently held an "anti-Macron" protest march at the Iqbal Maidan in the Madhya Pradesh capital. A case has been filed against Masood and "construction carried out as encroachment" near the university named after the Congress MLA has been demolished.

A few days ago, a protest march led by Arif Masood was taken out by nearly 2,000 people, including clerics, at Iqbal Maidan against French President Emmanuel Macron's stand after a teacher was killed in France for showing a cartoon on Prophet Mohammed in his class. Macron's comments after the incident caused widespread protests in several Muslim countries and also in France.