Maharashtra to rename Aurangabad as Sambhajinagar, Osmanabad as Dharashiv

Through IANS

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra cupboard presided over by means of Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray authorized the contentious proposals of renaming Aurangabad and Osmanabad in addition to the brand new upcoming Navi Mumbai Global Airport, right here on Wednesday.

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

The Navi Mumbai Global Airport — recently being built by means of the Adani Team in adjacent Raigad to decongest Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Global Airport in Mumbai — might be renamed after the overdue ‘Dinkar Balu Patil’, a distinguished chief of the coastal Konkan belt, as an alternative of the Shiv Sena founder, the overdue Balasaheb Thackeray, as previous pondered.

Those main selections — amongst a number of others got here at what’s billed because the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govt’s ‘ultimate cupboard’ assembly, with all ministers of the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration-Congress alliance provide.

The renaming of Aurangabad used to be a few of the an important calls for of the gang of rebels who left Maharashtra overdue on June 20 hanging the MVA govt in limbo and now the level is ready for a vital ground check to turn out its majority on Thursday.

In the meantime, Thackeray thanked all his cupboard colleagues and officers for his or her cooperation up to now two-and-half-years as all eyes had been riveted to the continuing Perfect Courtroom listening to that may have a bearing at the MVA’s long run.

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