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.