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Congress' Opposition to Renaming Aurangabad Won't Affect Maharashtra Govt: Shiv Sena FOLLOW US ON: Two days after Maharashtra Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat said his party would strongly oppose any proposal that seeks to rename Aurangabad as Sambhajinagar, the Shiv Sena on Saturday said its resistance will not affect the three-party MVA government in the state. Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut expressed confidence that the issue would be resolved when all the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies- Sena, NCP and Congress- sit together and talk. On Thursday, Thorat had asserted that the Congress would o...

Maharashtra: Congress opposes move to rename Aurangabad; Shiv Sena says resistance won't affect MVA Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut expressed confidence that the issue would be resolved when all the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies- Sena, NCP and Congress- sit together and talk. Representational Image Two days after Maharashtra Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat said his party would strongly oppose any proposal that seeks to rename Aurangabad as Sambhajinagar, the Shiv Sena on Saturday said its resistance will not affect the three-party MVA government in the state. Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut expres...

Renaming Aurangabad becomes new flashpoint between Shiv Sena, Congress in Maharashtra  The Shiv Sena has been demanding that Aurangabad should be renamed after the Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. However, the Congress has put its foot down saying it will oppose any such move. advertisement UPDATED: January 1, 2021 22:15 IST The demand to rename Aurangabad was initially raised by the Shiv Sena but with the change of equations in Maharashtra's politics, the party has been caught on the wrong foot. (File photo of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray.) Renaming of the historic cit...

Party says MVA allies engaging in game of political arm-wrestling The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has hit out at the ruling Congress and the Shiv Sena over renaming Aurangabad city as Sambhajinagar. The party said it was just a game of political ‘arm-wrestling’ between the two coalition partners of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government. BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis said the Sena typically kicked up the emotive ‘Sambhajinagar’ issue just before local elections, only to jettison its soon afterwards. “It hardly matters if the Congress opposes or supports the renaming issue. Ho...

Angering the Congress, Sena’s Rajya Sabha MP and Saamana editor Sanjay Raut, had on Saturday, taken a public dig at the Congress’s leadership. Contending that a “weak opposition” was bad for democracy, Raut had called for expansion of the Congress-led UPA. Lashing out at the Sena on Monday, AICC’s (Maharashtra in-charge) H K Patil said, “There are efforts by some people to create confusion amongst UPA partners. Those who are not part of the UPA shouldn’t poke their nose in UPA’s affairs. They are not relevant.” Former minister and Congress’s Mumbai campaign committee chief...