Sena to protest against Ram Gopal Varma over his Ganesh Chaturthi tweets

Mumbai: The Shiv sena is likely to hold a protest against Director Ram Gopal Varma in Mumbai on Saturday after he sparked off a controversy with a string of tweets on Ganesh Chaturthi. Varma had questioned the basis of celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi.

The two tweets said, "Did Lord Ganesha have a paunch in his childhood too or did it develop in the recovery time of the elephant head operation?"

"Can someone tell me if today is the day Ganesha was originally born or is it the day his dad cut his head off?"

When contacted, the filmmaker said, "I already said what I had to say in my tweets. There's nothing more I can say."

However, as his Twitter posts triggered an outrage, Varma took to the microblogging website to tender an apology.

His comments drew strong reactions from leaders across the political divide.