Maharashtra coalition partners Shiv Sena and the Congress on Friday continued to disagree over the name of Aurangabad city as Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray explained his decision to call it Sambhajinagar to honour the Maratha king, The Indian Express reported.
Thackeray said that Mughal king Aurangzeb, from whom the city got its name, was not a secular person. He was responding to the Congress’ objection to the city being called Sambhajinagar. “While our agenda has the word secular in it, a person like Aurangazeb does not fit into it,” he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
Thackeray had referred to Aurangabad as Sambhajinagar in his tweets earlier this week. “What new thing have I done?” Thackeray asked. “I have done what we have been saying for over so many years and what the Shiv Sena supremo [Bal Thackeray] had said.”
Maharashtra Congress President Balasaheb Thorat, meanwhile, said that politics over the renaming of cities creates a divide among the…
