Satsang Dispute after Sri Saibaba's Mahasamadhi is religion differences or opinion differences?

Dispute after Sri Saibaba's Mahasamadhi is religion
differences or opinion differences?

On the day when Baba entered mahasamadhi, Panduranga
Balaji Kavade and Vaman Ranganath Gokhale interviewed
several prominent devotees. Kavade is the author of the
Marathi history of Saibaba, Sri Sant Sai Maharaj Yanche
Charitra, which was first published 1956. Gokhale wrote
Nirvanicha Sakha – Shirdi che Sainath Maharaj Yanche
Jeevan Charitra, first published in Marathi in 1965. They
had met many of the elders of Shirdi, including Ramachandra
Kote Patil, Ratnaparkhi and other devotees, and later published
these interviews. An examination of the events of that day shows
that, contrary to widely held opinion, the dissension of that day
was not between Hindus on the one side and Muslims on the
other. Rather it was the result of the differences of opinion about
where Baba's body should be interred. Not all those who voted
to keep Baba's body in Booty Wada were Hindus, nor were all
those who preferred to place it in the burial ground Muslims.
Both parties had Muslims and Hindus amongst them. In fact
Ramachandra Kote Patil, in the interview, is especially
appreciative of the help given to him by a Muslim police
functionary during the dispute.

(Source: Saipatham Magazine October2002)