Maharashtra to rename Aurangabad as Sambhajinagar, Osmanabad as Dharashiv

By IANS

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray authorised the contentious proposals of renaming Aurangabad and Osmanabad in addition to the brand new upcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport, right here on Wednesday.

Accordingly, Aurangabad and Osmanabad shall be rechristened as ‘Sambhajinagar’ and ‘Dharashiv’, respectively, in deference to the desires of many locals and political teams.

The Navi Mumbai International Airport — at the moment being constructed by the Adani Group in adjoining Raigad to decongest Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai — shall be renamed after the late ‘Dinkar Balu Patil’, a outstanding chief of the coastal Konkan belt, as an alternative of the Shiv Sena founder, the late Balasaheb Thackeray, as earlier contemplated.

These main selections — amongst a number of others got here at what’s billed because the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities’s ‘last cabinet’ assembly, with all ministers of the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress alliance current.

The renaming of Aurangabad was among the many essential calls for of the group of rebels who left Maharashtra late on June 20 placing the MVA authorities in limbo and now the stage is ready for a vital ground take a look at to show its majority on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Thackeray thanked all his cabinet colleagues and officers for his or her cooperation previously two-and-half-years as all eyes had been riveted to the continuing Supreme Court listening to that would have a bearing on the MVA’s future.

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