Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty to be renamed 'Swaraj Bhoomi'

March 18, 2015 15:51

The BJP-led Maharashtra government today decided to rename the area at Girgaum Chowpatty in the city where veteran freedom fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was cremated, as 'Swaraj Bhoomi'.

"Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has accepted a proposal in this regard by the Mumbai Municipal Corporation," a senior government official said. The BJP had last year demanded that the little garden along Girgaum Chowpatty where Tilak was cremated should be named as 'Swaraj Bhoomi', a demand that Lokmanya Tilak Gaurav Samiti, an independent outfit, has been raising for long.

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