Uddhav Urges Centre to Speed up Renaming Process of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Navi Mumbai Airports

GG News Bureau
Mumbai, 6th Jan. Uddhav Thackeray, the leader of Shiv Sena (UBT), has written a letter to Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, requesting him to expedite the process of renaming the airport in Aurangabad (now Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar) and the upcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport.

In his letter, Thackeray mentioned that the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, under his leadership, had submitted a proposal to the Centre in 2020 to rename the Aurangabad airport as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Airport.

Furthermore, another proposal was sent in 2022 to name the Navi Mumbai international airport as D B Patil International Airport, Thackeray added.

Thackeray expressed that while his government was seeking to rename these two airports, they were informed from various sources that the Centre’s policy is to name airports only after their respective cities.

However, Thackeray pointed out that the Ayodhya airport has been renamed as Maharshi Valmiki International Airport and the Mopa airport in Goa as Manohar International Airport, after the late chief minister of the state, Manohar Parrikar.

Thackeray questioned why the same norm cannot be applied to the Aurangabad and Navi Mumbai airports in Maharashtra, if airports like Ayodhya and Mopa can be named after individuals.