for Sanatan Sanstha to be banned for conspiracy and murder. This demand of the people for a ban also reflected online and on social media, with a petition on Change.org and a page on Facebook. The daughter of Govind Pansare also called for the organisation to be banned. The government has been severely criticised for failing to ban Sanatan Sanstha; notably, the similarities with banned organisation Students Islamic Movement of India have been pointed out. Residents of Goa have been agitating for a ban on the organisation since 2009. Against the ban BJP On 24 December 2021, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, a BJP MLA, while expressing his stance in the Maharashtra assembly on the proposed ban on Sanatan Sanstha, asked the Government to notice the hypocrisy of those who demand such kind of prohibition. He asked why those people were silent on banning the Raza Academy. He further requested the MLAs to consider the results of a simple Google search for both of these organisations. The search result for Sanatan Sanstha shows a picture of Arti, while for Raza Academy, it shows an image of the member kicking the martyr’s pillar. On 2 December 2015, Minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju informed that there is no current proposal for imposing a ban on Sanatan Sanstha. Dabholkar's family is claiming the link between the three murders and requesting court to club the cases. However, CBI have informed High Court that it is waiting for the ballistic report from Scotland Yard to link all three cases. On 22 September 2015, Former Home Secretary RK Singh told that Home Ministry under the previous UPA government concluded that there was no specific evidence against Sanatan Sanstha, so on that basis they couldn't ban the organization On 24 September 2015, while speaking to journalists at the secretariat in Porvorim, the then Chief Minister of Goa Laxmikant Parsekar ruled out the possibility of banning Sanatan Sanstha. He further said that if someone associated with the Sanstha is an accused in the case, it does not reflect on the Sanstha. Congress In 2011, P. Chidambaram, the Home minister then, had turned down the demand to ban Sanatan Sanstha under section 35(3)(c) of UAPA citing lack of supporting evidences. MGP In October 2018, in the context of ban on the Sanstha, Former PWD Minister of Goa Sudin Dhavalikar lauded Sanatan Sanstha in an interview saying, “Sanatan (Sanstha) is