Maharashtra State Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the decisions to rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad districts to Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv respectively and also passed the proposal to extend name of farmer leader late D.B. Patil to under construction Navi Mumbai international airport.
Decisions to rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad were pending for many years and the Shiv Sena has been demanding the same for years. Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had mocked the Sena in the past questioning when the decision for the same will be taken.
While the confidence motion on the State government is still pending, Mr. Thackeray in the meeting thanked the administration. “I am extremely thankful for your cooperation in last two and half years. I apologise if any of you is hurt,” he said in the meeting. Mr. Thackeray also thanked his allies – the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) – saying they both cooperated with him. “But my own partymen betrayed,” he said.
