Aurangabad: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said that he has not forgotten the promise of his late father Balasaheb Thackeray that Aurangabad would be renamed as Sambhaji Nagar. He said the city will be renamed and he will do it.
“Hindutva is in our every breathe…I have never forgotten that my late father Balasaheb Thackeray had promised that Aurangabad would be renamed Sambhaji Nagar and I have not forgotten it…we will change it,” he said.
The BJP has been putting pressure on Thackeray to rename Aurangabad as it was a promise of late Balasaheb Thackeray. However, Shiv Sena, which is heading a coalition government in the state with the support from the Congress and NCP, is facing pushback from its partners.
The chief minister also dared the BJP to recite Hanuman Chalisa in Kashmir, where a spate of targeted killings of migrant workers and Kashmiri Pandits have taken place in the last few weeks. “If you have the courage then go and recite Hanuman Chalisa in Kashmir,” he said while addressing a rally in Aurangabad.
Thackeray also said that let there be an open debate in Mumbai on what Shiv Sena has done for Hindutva and what the BJP has done. He also raised the Nupur Sharma episode and said that due to a statement of a BJP spokesperson, the nation had to bear the humiliation.
