Mumbai, Nov. 3 -- The Bombay High Court's directive instructing the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to re-upload the awareness video featuring actor Dia Mirza, urging people not to burst firecrackers on public streets during Diwali, has triggered a political face-off in Maharashtra, with the opposition targeting the BJP for playing "religion-based politics," while the ruling alliance maintained that a single festival should not be singled out for pollution.

Speaking to ANI, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) [NCP(SP)] MLA Rohit Pawar welcomed the court's intervention, taking aim at BJP legislator Ameet Satam for objecting to the actor's environmental advisory.

"The Bombay High Court has issued a very sound order. ...