After the BJP expelled Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha’s Mumbai chief Ganesh Pandey following an office-bearer’s charge that he molested her, the MNS demanded an FIR against him for ‘insulting the Marathi woman’.Pandey allegedly molested the BYJM activist at a hotel in Mathura on March 4, during a party event. The woman alleged he asked her if she was a virgin and assaulted her when she resisted him. This paper had reported the incident in its March 27 edition.In her complaint, the activist quoted Pandey as saying, “Arey is Marathan mein bahut takat hai yaar. Ye aise idhar hai, bed mai kaise hogi?”Even as several organisations have taken up her cause, the MNS is giving the ‘Marathi v/s North Indian’ tinge to the incident.On Monday, MNS leader Shalini Thackeray took out a protest march to DN Nagar police station. She said since Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar had removed Pandey from his post, he must have been guilty, and not booking him would allow criminals to have a free run.NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik also demanded the resignation of education minister Vinod Tawde, whose name finds a mention in the complaint letter. “In her complaint, the victim said Pandey told her, ‘Tawde has left you alone, but I will not spare you.’ This means Pandey made an attempt to rape her, but Pandey has also claimed that Tawde could have made such an attempt.”The BJP issued a statement in support of Tawde, who had said he was not connected to the case. Cooperation minister Chandrakant Patil said, “Trusting the lady worker, we took action against Pandey. Since the opponents cannot target the government for corruption, they are making baseless charges.”