Congress slams Mahayuti govt for ‘undermining’ Shivaji’s legacy

PTI New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday accused the Mahayuti government of “undermining” the legacy of one of India’s greatest sons, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, and said those who reject Maharashtra’s glorious history and composite culture will face their comeuppance next month. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh also alleged that the Mahayuti didn’t spare the Chhatrapati from its “extortion and loot” as his 35-ft statue at Rajkot Fort in Sindhudurg was made so “shoddily” that it collapsed within a year of its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself. “The Mahayuti Government in Maharashtra, has been undermining the legacy of one of India’s greatest sons,” Ramesh said in a post on X. “Seven years ago, the non-biological PM laid the foundation stone for a 696 feet statue of Shivaji Maharaj in the Arabian Sea near Mumbai. It has since been silently abandoned by his government,’’ he said.