Click to play videoNew Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is now the latest entrant to those fighting for north-Indians' safety in Maharashtraha. She has joined hands with the Samajwadi Party in demanding the imposition of President's rule in Maharashtra.
UPA allies like RJD and Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti party had already placed similar demands.
Mayawati has demanded the Maharashtra government be dismissed and President's rule be imposed in the state.
"The Centre should waste no time in dissolving the state assembly in Maharshtra and should bring to book all those who are involved in the violence there," demanded Mayawati.
A man from Uttar Pradesh was lynched on a train in Khopoli, just outside Mumbai on Tuesday.
A Patna boy brandished a gun in public and took a bus conductor hostage and injured another commuter before being gunned down by Mumbai Police on Monday.
Meanwhile, in Delhi politicians have been playing the blame game on Mumbai's latest brand of regional chauvinism.
Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has said that an attempt was on to create strife in the state.
He also reiterated that the government was doing everything necessary to ensure peace.
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, which has been running an anti-North Indian campaign in the state, has washed its hands off the lynching of the youth from UP by saying that its men have been wrongly detained and questioned by the police.
Union Home Minister and a native of the state, Shivraj Patil in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN had said that the situation is not all that bad and can be brought under control.
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