Mumbai, April 7 :     Union minister for information and broadcasting Pramod Mahajan has revoked the transfer orders of seven Marathi producers of Mumbai Doordarshan under pressure from the Sena-BJP coalition after the Congress-led Opposition accused it of insensitivity towards the Maharashtrians. The transfers were annulled following an SOS from the state government, stung by Congress allegations that it was insensitive towards the ?sons-of-the-soil?. The Sena has long championed the cause of Maharashtra?s sons-of-the-soil. This time, in a role-reversal, it was the Congress which sought the revocation of the orders transferring seven Marathi producers from Mumbai. The issue was raised by Opposition leader Chhagan Bhujbal in the state council. Speaker N.S. Pharande rejected Bhujbal?s notice, saying Doordarshan was under the Centre, and hence no discussion could be allowed on the issue. Congress legislators started shouting slogans at the Speaker?s ruling. Congressmen Kripashankar Singh and Chandrakant Raghuvanshi, both non-Maharashtrian MLCs from Mumbai, unfurled a banner in Marathi, condemning the state government?s apathy towards the ?unjust? transfer of the producers. Opposition legislators rushed to the well and kept shouting slogans, forcing Speaker Pharande to adjourn the House. Later, chief minister Narayan Rane made a statement in the House saying he had spoken to Mahajan as soon as he learnt of the transfers. Rane assured the agitated Opposition that he was looking into the matter. It was an ironic situation when chief minister Rane, a veteran of several sons-of-the-soil crusades against earlier Congress regimes in the state, was on the backfoot. Rane charged the Opposition with ?politicising the issue? with an eye on the Assembly elections, due next March. Rane, both in his earlier avatar as Sena leader in the municipal corporation and as chairman of BEST, was a strong, often militant, advocate of jobs for Maharashtrians. Following Rane?s statement, the Opposition staged a walkout. Deputy chairman of the state Planning Commission Prakash Jawdekar of the BJP announced in the House that the transfers had been revoked. Caught on the wrong foot, the ruling alliance reacted angrily. Deputy chief minister Gopinath Munde said the saffron alliance had only sent Maharashtrian members to the Council. Whereas, the Congress, he pointed out, had sent Kripashankar Singh and Anil Mehta to the Upper House, who belonged to Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat respectively.