Lok Sabha Debates
Request To Approve And Give Permission To Erect The Statue Of Chhatrapati Shivaji ... on 7 February, 2022
Seventeenth Loksabha > Title: Request to approve and give permission to erect the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Rajapeth Floyver.
*श्रीमती नवनित रवि राणा (अमरावती) : अध्यक्ष महोदय, आपका बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद । मैं मराठी में अपना विषय रखना चाहूंगी ।
Hon'ble Speaker Sir, thank you.
I would like to speak in Marathi. On the occasion of Birth Anniversary of Maa Jijau, thousands of Shivbhakts were gathered together and they erected a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Daryapur, Amravati on 12th January, 2022. They had been asking for permission to erect the statue at Rajapeth flyover for the last three years but the local administration did not approve that. People were worshipping the statue on daily basis and it was turned into a place of pilgrimage.
On 16th January 2022 at midnight at Rajapeth flyover, the local police and administration removed that statue by deploying CRPF, forcibly and brutally.
The people of Maharashtra worship Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj as a God and it is really shameful the way the statue was removed. Through you, I would like to request the Central Government to kindly look into it.
Thank you.