<p>Police in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/maharashtra-cm-eknath-shinde-recalls-how-he-missed-the-bus-to-join-the-army-23284961" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Maharashtra</a>'s Jalna city on Thursday stopped activists of the Samta Parishad from staging a mock funeral of Hindutva leader <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/maharashtra-case-registered-against-sambhaji-bhide-for-remarks-on-mahatma-gandhi-23300661" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Sambhaji Bhide</a>.</p>
<p>The protest at Lahuji Salve chowk had been organised to condemn <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/maharashtra-govt-opposition-spar-over-sambhaji-bhides-remarks-23301461" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Sambhaji Bhide</a>'s alleged remarks against the eminent 19th century social reformer Mahatma Jyotirao Phule and Mahatma Gandhi.</p>
<p>Five activists were detained and subsequently released, said a police official, while denying that lathicharge was used to disperse the protesters.</p>
<p>Madhukar Jharekar, district president of the Samta Parishad, alleged that the police used force for no valid reason.</p>
<p>FIRs have already been registered against Bhide for his alleged derogatory remarks against Mahatma Gandhi, Saibaba of Shirdi and Phule at Amravati. He has not been arrested yet.</p>
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Police in Maharashtra`s Jalna city on Thursday stopped activists of the Samta Parishad from staging a mock funeral of Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide

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Police in Maharashtra's Jalna city on Thursday stopped activists of the Samta Parishad from staging a mock funeral of Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide

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