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Sena
ruled civic body passes bill to rename Aurangabad
Tuesday January 04, 2011 08:51:04 PM,
Agencies
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Aurangabad/Mumbai:
Miffed over removal of
the statue of Shivaji Maharaj's tutor Dadoji Konddev from the
historic Lal Mahal in Pune, the Shiv Sena-BJP combine January 4
ensured passage of a resolution in the Aurangabad civic body to
rename the historic city as Sambhajinagar.
The resolution was passed by a voice
vote at a special general body meeting of the Aurangabad Municipal
Corporation (AMC) January4, Mayor Anita Ghodele said.
Observers, however, feel that the
actual renaming is far away as it would need assent of the State
and Central governments, both controlled by Congress-NCP secular
alliance.
The move is seen as an attempt to hit
back at the Congress party- Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) which
has removed the statue of Maratha warrior Shivaji’s tutor Dadaji
Konddev from the historic Lal Mahal in Pune recently.
A Sena leader said that the renaming of Aurangabad as Sambhaji
Nagar and Osmanabad as Dharashivhad has been pending since 1995.
Aurangabad, he said was named after the Muslim Mogul Emperor
Aurangzeb and the Hindus were against it.
“The AMC in June 1995 passed a resolution to rename Aurangabad as
Sambhaji Nagar by majority vote and the proposal was sent to the
Maharashtra government for approval,” he said.
In November 1995, the Sena-BJP government which was in power in
the state, issued a Government Resolution (GR) approving the
proposal of the AMC. But the GR was not implemented as a local
court issued a stay order on a petition filed by AMC Councilor
Mushtaq Ahmed. The Congress-NCP government which came to power
later cancelled the GR.
Crying foul over the Sena move to rename Aurangabad, the Congress
condemned the Sena move and asked the Sena-BJP alliance instead to
focus on the development of the city.
Rafiq Siddiqui, a Congress leader, said that the Sena-BJP move to
rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad cities is nothing but communal
politics and a plan to create Hindu-Muslim divide and antagonize
the Muslim community. And any such move would only boomerang on
the saffron alliance.
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