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Chhatrapati Shivaji memorial at sea rocks legislature
Thursday March 15, 2012 10:14:23 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: The issue of securing environmental
clearance from the centre for the ambitious memorial for Chhatrapati Shivaji in the Arabian Sea rocked the Maharashtra
legislative assembly on its first day here Thursday.
The Opposition parties attacked the government for failing to get
the centre's permission to install the 309-feet tall statue,
planned on the lines of the Statue of Liberty outside New York.
"The government was not sincere in getting the required sanction
for the statue," Bharatiya Janata Party's opposition leader Eknath
Khadse said.
Shiv Sena leader Subhash Desai termed the alleged denial of
permission to the project as "an insult" to the people of
Maharashtra.
Peasants & Workers Party leader Ganpatrao Deshmukh demanded that
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan should make a statement in the
house detailing the measures taken till date to get the necessary
environmental clearances for the project.
Not to be left behind the MNS member Bala Nandgaonkar said that
New Delhi "has always ill-treated Maharashtra" and this is yet
another example.
Intervening in the debate, Chief Minister Chavan clarified that
the Ministry of Environment & Forests has not yet refused
permission for the project.
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