A leader of the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena on July 16 said the Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra wanted to lengthen the process of renaming Aurangabad.
While the Maha Vikas Aghadi government under Uddhav Thackeray had decided to rename the city as Sambhajinagar in its last Cabinet meeting on June 29, the new dispensation on Saturday passed a fresh proposal that will see Marathwada's biggest city being called 'Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar'.