Nagpur : Prominent pro-Vidarbha activist and former Advocate-General Shreehari Aney on Wednesday demanded that the upcoming Nagpur-Mumbai Super Communication Expressway (NMSCE) be named after Mahatma Gandhi for whom Vidarbha was a ‘karmabhoomi’.
“Why should the NMSCE be named after Bal Thackeray? Neither the Shiv Sena nor any of its leader did anything for the cause of (separate state) Vidarbha,” Aney said in a statement.
He pointed out that the promise of the late Sena founder to create a new state of Vidarbha in eastern Maharashtra was not honoured by the party or any of his leaders.
Aney said that “the late Thackeray’s name is suitable only in Mumbai or Pune” and sought to know what was wrong with the existing name, NMSCE. The legal luminary’s demand came a day after the Shiv Sena asked Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to christen NMSCE after the late Thackeray even as a section of Bharatiya Janata Party wants to name it after the late Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee.
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