On Wednesday, January 6, the Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray urged the Centre to issue a notification at the earliest for renaming the Aurangabad Airport after Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj.
Amid a row over the demand to change the name of Aurangabad, Thackeray has written a letter to Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri about the state cabinet’s decision to rename the airport after Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, son of Maratha warrior king Shivaji Maharaj.
Meanwhile the Congress has opposed the renaming and has said that it was against such move.
Whereas, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is cornering Thackeray-led Shiv Sena on the issue of renaming Aurangabad city. But the questioned raised by Sena is that why the BJP-led Central government was not clearing the airport renaming proposal sent by the state.
Earlier, Shiv Sena leader and chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut had said that BJP leaders from Maharashtra must go to Delhi and ask why the Centre has not cleared the proposal.
On January 6, the CMO’s official Twitter handle referred to Aurangabad as Sambhaji Nagar while putting out a tweet on a cabinet decision. However, the statement from the CMO on the cabinet decision to increase of 165 beds and create 360 posts in government medical college and cancer hospital in Aurangabad did not refer to the city as Sambhaji Nagar.
Moreover, the CMO Twitter handle tagged medical education minister Amit Deshmukh, who is from the Congress, who has opposed the renaming of the city.
The Maharashtra cabinet had in March 2020 decided to rename the Aurangabad Airport after Sambhaji Maharaj. The airport is situated in Chikhalthana area of Aurangabad.
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