NCP chief Sharad Pawar said his statement indicating that a blast had taken place in a Muslim-dominated area too on March 12, 1993 prevented the eruption of fresh communal riot in Mumbai. BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis had on Thursday raked up Pawar's deliberately incorrect statement of 29 years ago as he accused Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party of indulging in appeasement politics.

On March 12, 1993, when Mumbai was shaken with 12 bomb blasts, Sharad Pawar ji invented a 13th blast in a Muslim area. Instead of law and order, appeasement was his first priority. Why such double standard when we expect communal harmony?" the BJP leader said in a series of tweets.