On Saturday, senior leaders of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) expressed concern over the recent incidents of communal unrest witnessed in parts of Maharashtra, including Kolhapur, news agency PTI reported,

According to PTI, addressing an event marking the completion of 24 years of the NCP's formation, party MP Supriya Sule said these incidents were not good for democracy, while its state unit chief Jayant Patil claimed that creating communal unrest through social media was something that never happened in the past.