Maharashtra: Amidst raging Aurangabad renaming row, unknown miscreants tear aside a banner with Sambhaji Maharaj’s title

As the row over the renaming of Aurangabad to Sambhaji Nagar continues to rage on, a wanton incident of vandalism has been reported from Satara. A banner bearing the title of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj at Powai Naka in Satara has been introduced down and torn aside by unknown miscreants.
Still no outrage by NCP-CONG-SS supporters & so known as chatrapati sambhaji maharaj premis on this incidence.Agar yahi devendra ji CM rehte huye hota toh abtak resignation maang lete. https://t.co/JIJEXtcts9— आलू बोंडा (@ek_aalu_bonda) January 9, 2021
A grade separator has been arrange in Satara to scale back the congestion in visitors. The work of the separator was happening for the final three years. Rs 66 crores had been spent on finishing the venture.
On Friday, the grade separator was inaugurated by MP Udayan Raje Bhosale. All the gates of the grade separators had been named after completely different Chhatrapati Maratha kings. An indication carrying the title of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj was put up on one of many entrances of the grade separator highway.
Hours after the subway’s inauguration, its banner bearing Sambhaji Maharaj’s title vandalised
However, on Saturday morning, hours after the subway was inaugurated, commuters discovered the banner with the title of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj mendacity on the highway, sundered aside. It is presumed that some unidentified vandals tore down an indication put up on the subway named after Chhatrapati Sambhaji Raje Bhosale on Friday evening.
The incident of vandalism has created a stir within the area, with the supporters of Udayan Raje hitting the streets demanding motion towards the culprits. Besides, advocate Dattatreya Bunkar, Sangram Barge, corporators and activists of Satara Vikas Aghadi expressed their anger over the incident and urged the police to search out and arrest the miscreants liable for vandalising the banner.
The metropolis police, however, has appealed folks to keep up calm and pursue the matter legally as an alternative of taking the legislation into their fingers. The police have additionally launched a probe within the matter.
The raging controversy surrounding the renaming of Aurangabad to ‘Sambhaji Nagar’
An argument was kicked up after the Shiv Sena, one of many events of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance of the Maharashtra authorities, dredged up the decades-old demand of renaming town of Aurangabad to Sambhaji Nagar. However, Shiv Sena’s alliance companion, Congress, opposed the demand, stating that it didn’t come beneath the ambit of the Common Minimum Programme(CMP) agreed upon by the Maha Vikas Aghadi companions.
The Shiv Sena, nevertheless, upped the ante, stating that the demand for the renaming of Aurangabad doesn’t must be within the CMP because it a well-liked demand and enjoys public help. It additionally revealed a scathing article in its mouthpiece Saamana whereby it remarked that Muslims in India don’t regard Aurangzeb as their uncle and they might don’t have any issues in renaming Aurangabad identical to they’d no points with the development of Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray additionally jumped into the controversy, referring to Aurangabad as Sambhaji Nagar. The CM’s official Twitter account repeatedly referred to Aurangabad as ‘Sambhaji Nagar’. This invited a stiff retort from Congress, which identified the Maharashtra CM that he can’t change the official title in such an arbitrary method. It additionally knowledgeable the Shiv Sena that they didn’t it doesn’t have a majority to push via selections.
Responding to the Congress’s objection to him referring to Aurangabad as Sambhaji Nagar to honour the Maratha ruler, Thackeray informed reporters: “Aurangzeb was not a secular person. While our agenda has the word secular in it, a person like Aurangzeb does not fit into it.”