[1] In 1999, MANS had protested the canonisation of Mother Teresa on the basis of purported miracles, but they had praised her service to the ailing and diseased.

[3] MANS proposed that citizens could instead immerse the idols into the tanks built specially for this purpose on the riverbanks.

In October 2009, MANS organised a contest with a prize money of ₹21 lakh challenging astrologers to predict the results of the Maharashtra Assembly poll election with at least 80% accuracy.

In 1989 at the Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Jahirnama Parishad held that year in Pune, then Chief minister Sharad Pawar had indicated the formation of a law in that direction.

[8] On 2 March 2009, MANS members wrote a letter in blood and sent to then Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and others to urge them to take steps towards the passing of the law.