Maharashtra minister seeks removal of protected status for Aurangzeb's tomb

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Maharashtra Minister Shambhuraj Desai announced that Shiv Sena has requested the union government to remove the protected monument status of Aurangzeb's tomb in Khultabad, Chhatrapati Shambhaji Nagar district.

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00:00We have some more breaking news coming in this time from India.

00:08Shiv Sena seeks removal of protected monument status to Aurangzeb's tomb.

00:13Maharashtra Minister Shambhuraj Desai on Thursday said his ruling Shiv Sena party has

00:18asked the union government to remove the protected monument status to Aurangzeb's tomb at Khultabad

00:24in Chhatrapati Shambhaji Nagar district.

00:26Maharashtra Minister says after the nod to lift the protected monument status, the state

00:30government will take action within the framework of the law.

00:36My colleague Vidya is joining me live on the broadcast for more details.

00:39Vidya, we are seeing that Shiv Sena is seeking the removal of the protected monument status

00:44to Aurangzeb's tomb.

00:45Give us more details.

00:46Well, this is this really comes after a petition has already been filed in the Bombay High

00:51Court by a petitioner, activist named Kejansi Rohtar.

00:54He had filed a petition stating that, you know, there are two things that needs to be

00:58done.

00:59One, you know, the national monument status that has been declared, you know, across India,

01:05ASI has these national monuments across the country.

01:09But according to the petitioner also and as according to the Shiv Sena also now, you know,

01:14the national monument status, which which makes it a place which needs to be preserved

01:19that needs to be removed.

01:21And of course, you know what, because it is only of national people of national importance.

01:27So according to the petitioner also, what he has argued in the petition is that, you

01:32know, someone like Aurangzeb cannot be someone who who is revered or needs to be protected

01:38as as someone of a national monument status.

01:42And in fact, like someone like Ghazni or people who are Taimur, you know, these are not the

01:49kind of people whose, you know, the tomb said should be preserved is what he has argued

01:56about it.

01:57And of course, also he has argued that, you know, they should be removed like like that

02:02of Aurangzeb, like what the Shiv Sena is also now been saying as the demand for the BHP

02:07and the Bajrang Dal had also come of removing that entire tomb from the Kultabad area.

02:12So, of course, you know, such demands have been breaking up.

02:15Well, it's for the first time that we have seen that the state has done something about

02:19it and written to the union government.

02:21Absolutely, Vidya.

02:22Thanks for bringing us those details.

02:24This is obviously after organizations like Bajrang Dal and BHP have demanded the removal

02:29of the tomb and recent escalations that took place in Nagpur over Aurangzeb's tomb.

02:34And now we're seeing Shiv Sena seeking removal of protected status to Aurangzeb's tomb now.

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