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The Maharashtra authorities is unhappy with Union Minister Jitendra Singh’s caller connection astir Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Maharashtra Minister Ashish Shelar told the Legislative Council connected Saturday (December 13, 2025). He was responding to a announcement issued by Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC Anil Parab connected the issue. He besides said that an upset Chief Minister had written to the Union authorities astir it.
Mr. Singh had precocious said that helium was blessed that the sanction of the IIT was IIT-Bombay, and not IIT-Mumbai. The connection had caused a disturbance successful the State, with some the Opposition arsenic good arsenic the ruling dispensation hitting backmost astatine Mr. Singh. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena person Raj Thackeray had besides expressed beardown displeasure astir it.
“It needs to beryllium intelligibly stated that the Maharashtra authorities is unhappy with this statement. The Chief Minister has already written a missive to the Union Minister acrophobic astir it. So, the government’s presumption is not conscionable that it is unhappy, but that the displeasure has been conveyed arsenic well,” Mr. Shelar told the House during its Winter Session.
“We person not yet received the notification astir it [the announcement raised successful the House]. And though this does not autumn successful the purview of my department, this contented is adjacent to the bosom for each of us. It is of value for Maharashtra, for Mumbai, and it is simply a substance of pridefulness and individuality for the Marathi manoos. So, I privation to explicit my sentiment connected the announcement issued connected the topic,” Mr. Shelar said portion speaking successful the Council.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC Anil Parab had raised the issue, seeking to cognize Maharashtra government’s authoritative presumption successful the matter. “Mumbai is simply a substance of individuality and pridefulness for the Marathi manoos. Balasaheb Thackeray had done a batch for the contented of renaming Bombay arsenic Mumbai, truthful had [former Union Minister and BJP leader] Ram Naik. So I had asked the authorities for its presumption connected the Union Minister’s statement,” Mr. Parab told The Hindu from Nagpur.
