Police said the suspects are members of the regional Shiv Sena party.
Hindu fundamentalist politician Bal Thackeray, the founder of the right-wing Shiv Sena party, has died in Mumbai at the age of 86.
BBC: Bal Thackeray, Hindu leader and Shiv Sena founder, dies
Shiv Sena party president Uddhav Thackeray and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vinod Tawde said his comments were "a cruel joke on the drought-hit population of the state".
Mr Thackeray - his father anglicised his surname after William Makepeace Thackeray, English author of Vanity Fair - ran the nativist Shiv Sena party which excelled in populism and xenophobia over four decades.
She is a serious, self-contained woman dressed in saffron and red and frowns at my description of Shiv Sena as a party of violence.
Three years later, a coalition government of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which had also put Hindutva on its central agenda, came into power in Maharashtra to rule for the next five years.
The reaction was more heated in Mumbai (Bombay) where Bal Thackeray, head of the ruling party, Shiv Sena, declared that he would not allow any Pakistani side to play in what has traditionally been the cricketing capital of India.
But Bombay is also the capital of the only state (Maharashtra) where the hardline Hindu party, the Shiv Sena, shares power.
BJP's Hindu-chauvinist face is particularly evident in Maharashtra, India's most industralised and most prosperous state, which it runs in coalition with a regional party, the Shiv Sena.
Sanjay Nirupam, a Shiv Sena member of Parliament and editor of the party newspaper, Saamna (Confrontation), leads the campaign against provocative advertisements.
After an audience had gathered at a posh Bombay hotel in April, Shiv Sena activists entered the auditorium, occupied the stage and began singing party songs.
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