The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has formally renamed the historic Shivaji Park in Dadar. The civic body recently approved the proposal to change the name of the ground, which has often been associated with Maharashtra's politics and Indian cricket. The renaming of Shivaji Park happened as part of the birth anniversary celebrations of the legendary Maratha warrior.
Shivaji Park has been home to numerous cricketers including legendary batsmen, Vinod Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar who took their first cricket lessons here.
On one side of the park, there is a statue of legendary Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, along with a Ganesh temple, Udyan Ganesh and a small memorial of the late Balasaheb Thackeray. The park is also important to the Shiv Sena as for decades, Balasaheb addressed the annual Dassera rally in this ground. The bust of late Meenatai Thackeray, popularly called Masaheb, is on one edge of the ground.
In 1995, when the Shiv Sena and BJP came to power after joining hands, Manohar Joshi and late Gopinath Munde were sworn in as Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister respectively from here.
In 2019, after the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government came to power, Uddhav Thackeray took his oath as the chief minister in the same ground. During the freedom movement, the park was a focal point of Samyukta Maharashtra Chalval (consolidated Maharashtra) movement.
In other news, on Shiv Jayanti, a Mumbai artist made a world record by creating a mosaic portrait of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The artist, Nitin Dinesh Kamble, works as a high-tech animator in a private company. Kamble created the 10X8 feet portrait in 10 days using 46,080 plastic bits of six different colours.
The portrait was finished in ten days and the raw material for which was brought from Bhubaneshwar. However, Kamble had coloured it in six different colours by himself.
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