Recently, the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district was toppled, leading to widespread outrage. Following the incident, authorities arrested consultant Chetan Patil on allegations of his involvement in the act.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was on a day-long visit to Maharashtra, unveiled the statue of party leader late Patangrao Kadam in Sangli and addressed a public meeting later in the day.
Shivaji Maharaj statue collapse: The collapse of the statue of the iconic founder of the Maratha state has triggered a huge political row ahead of assembly elections in Maharashtra with the Opposition targeting the Eknath Shinde-led government.
India's number one and most followed Super Prime Time News Show, ‘Aaj Ki Baat-Rajat Sharma Ke Saath' was launched just before the 2014 general elections.
Earlier in the day, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar had visited the Rajkot fort in Malvan where the statue had collapsed and vowed to erect a grand structure of the warrior king at the same place.
An FIR has been registered against the contractor of the statue work after it collapsed on August 26 just eight months after it was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 4 last year.
Following the collapse of the 35-foot-tall statue of Shivaji Maharaj on August 26, the police booked the contractor after the state Public Works Department (PWD) claimed poor quality of the construction work.
The 35-foot statue of the 17th century Maratha empire founder, installed at Rajkot Fort in Sindhudurg district's Malvan tehsil collapsed on August 26, nearly nine months after it was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
An FIR has been registered against the contractor of the statue work after it collapsed on Monday just eight months after it was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 4 last year.
A Shivaji statue was placed by one group, which was opposed by another. This resulted in protests and stone-hurling, said the police.
Workers of Shiv Sena and other organisations block Chhindwara-Nagpur Highway to protest against removal of a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji by state government in Chhindwara.
Mumbai: Maharashtra government has proposed an elaborate security arrangement for the Chhatrapati Shivaji's memorial in the Arabian Sea off Mumbai. The security measures include CCTVs, bunkers, a system which will keep it invisible on radars,
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