Mumbai: Actor Shah Rukh Khan on Tuesday reacted to the insider versus outsider debate raging on in Maharashtra. The actor was addressing the media while announcing the Indian version of the Australian reality TV show, Are You Smarter Than 5th Grader.

“A lot of these issues which get raised are more political than personal. I wouldn’t take any of it personally nor should any educated Indian. I am averse to any kind of angst and violence. We Indians are like that we tend to over-react. Everybody has the right to be anywhere in India or anywhere in the world and make the country proud,” he said.

Meanwhile, even as Mumbai remained calm through the day, the anti-migrant violence spread to Nasik and Pune.

Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena workers vandalised shops owned by north Indians in Nashik on Tuesday, injuring one shopkeeper.

Tension gripped the city when MNS workers attacked fruit vendors and shops belonging to north Indians. Banks and schools were shut after the incidents.

In Pune too, state-run buses were attacked by MNS workers and shops in Laxmi Road area downed shutters after some stall owners were attacked.

Shops in some Mumbai areas were also shut and opened only after police assured safety of shopkeepers and took 213 people in custody and deployed police in vulnerable areas

Sources in the government say that the decision to arrest Raj is now with the police. The Maharashtra police are believed to be supplementing forces in Nashik and Pune before they take any action.

"Arrest depends on the investigations in the case. Arrest is not mandatory according to law,” said Mumbai DGP Pasricha.

Pasricha also assured north Indians that the state was peaceful and there was no reason to be worried.

Meanwhile, Raj Thackeray showed no signs of toning down his anti-North Indian stand. In a cartoon, published in Tuesday’s edition of the Maharashtra Times, Raj depicted the north Indian migrant population as striking at the base of Maharashtra while the state government looked on.