Mumbai: BMC Oppn moves motion to change name of SoBo street
Ravi Raja, senior Congress corporator and Leader of Opposition in the BMC has said that BMC s move to rename the road contradicts its own policies
Leaders of the Opposition in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) moved a resolution in the house of the corporation, demanding that the south Mumbai road, named after former president of Israel Shimon Peres should be changed.
On February 12, the FPJ had reported that a junction between Kala Ghoda Chowk and Sai Baba Marg in South Mumbai has been named, Shimon Pares Chowk , in honour of the former Israeli president and Nobel peace prize laureate. Following which, group leaders of the opposition party expressed their displeasure on the issue and demanded that the chowk should be renamed after an Indian national.
The chowk sign, with a wrongly spelt name of Shimon Peres
MUMBAI: Despite opposition from some corporators, BMC has named a junction at Kala Ghoda after former Israeli prime minister and Nobel Peace prize laureate Shimon Peres. This is the first time a prominent junction in Mumbai has been named after a foreign dignitary. Samajwadi Party and Congress have opposed it.
BMC recently put up the signboard but SP and Congress had opposed the proposal when it was discussed in 2018, saying that though Peres had been a friend of India, he did not have any specific connection with Mumbai or Maharashtra.
Mumbai square, named after ex-Israeli PM Shimon Peres, sparks row
IANS / Updated: Feb 13, 2021, 15:21 IST
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For the first time, a prominent junction in south Mumbai has been named after a foreign dignitary, but it sparked off a political row among various parties in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (
BMC).
Shimon Peres Chowk after the late Israel President and two-time Prime Minister
Shimon Peres (1923-2016), who was also the joint winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize along with Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin. However, the square, renamed without fanfare around 4 months ago, ostensibly owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions, has now led to a civic political fracas.