Among those who took part in the march, which began eventually after 11 am, included NCP( SP) Baramati MP Supriya Sule and MLA Anil Deshmukh.Leaders of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi on Sunday held a march from the iconic Hutatma Chowk to  Gateway of India in south Mumbai to protest against the collapse of a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg quarter. They slammed the Union and state governments for the collapse, with Uddhav Thackeray calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reason as one” smacking of arrogance”, while Sharad Pawar said the occasion was an illustration of corruption. The statue of the 17th century Maratha legionnaire king at Rajkot stronghold in Malvan tehsil, some 480 kilometres from then, fell on August 26. It was unveiled by PM Modi on December 4, 2023, on the occasion of Navy Day. NCP( SP) supremo Pawar, Shiv Sena( UBT) leader Thackeray, Congress state unit principal Nana Patole and the party’s Mumbai head Varsha Gaikwad began the kick march by laying wreaths at Hutatma Chowk, a keepsake to those martyred in the’ Samyukta Maharashtra’ agitation. Addressing a gathering at Gateway of India, where the kick march crowned, Thackeray said,” Did you notice the arrogance in the( Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s) reason? It smacked of arrogance. One deputy principal minister was smiling.” Asserting that people of Maharashtra will noway forgive the personality to the fabulous legionnaire king, Thackeray cited the statue collapse, leakages in the Ram Temple and the new Parliament complex to mock Modi’s” guarantees”.

Shivaji Statue Collapse Cost:-

Indian Army on Thursday said that a common specialized commission headed by the Indian Navy with representatives from the Maharashtra government and specialized experts is being formed to probe the damage to the Statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj installed at Rajkot Fort, Sindhudurg, posterior to the “ exceptional rainfall conditions in the region”. A 35- bottom-altitudinous statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the state’s Sindhudurg quarter collapsed on Monday autumn. It further added, “ The design was conceptualised and steered by the Indian Navy, in collaboration with state govt which also handed backing for it. The Indian Navy remains married to aiding in all measures to repair, restore, and reinstate the statue at the foremost. ” The incident swelled into a political contestation, with the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi( MVA) targeting the Mahayuti government and seeking Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s abdication.

Shivaji Statue Budget:-

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s forthcoming statue in Arabian Sea off Mumbai seacoast will bring the Maharashtra bankroll Rs 3643.78 crore and construction of allaspects of the design will be over by 2022- 23, the government said. The state press on November 1, 2018 had extended executive blessing to the design report and permission to total expenditure of Rs 3700.84 crore. As per the sanctioned permission given by the state government, the cost is now down by Rs 56.70 crore, stated a government order( GR) issued last week. The Maharashtra government on December 19, extended executive blessing to the total expenditure of Rs 3643.78 crore over five times, which includes check and disquisition of point to perpetration of security measures by the police. The construction of the statue would bring Rs 2581 crore, while Rs 309.72 crore would be the GST on the quantum. Rs 236 crore would be spent on security structure, Rs 45 crore for endless water and electricity force at the completed statue, the GR said. statue proposed off Bombay seacoast t stated that Rs 1 crore is allocated for conformation of SPV which will maintain and do form work while Rs 2 crore will be spent on study tenures for the design. “Amounts of Rs 112.68 crore, Rs 56.34 crore and Rs 140.85 crore are allocated for contingency fund, computerisation, and centage charges, independently. Project operation adviser would be paid Rs 82.46 crore while Rs 76.73 crore is for construction of quay”,it stated. According to the schedule set by the government, the statue work and construction of a ocean wall will begin in 2019- 20. ” Construction of balance pedestal structure works, architectural workshop, electrical workshop, mechanical workshop, construction of Entrance Forecourt will take place in 2020- 21″, it said. Since 2013, a aggregate of Rs 36.86 crore have been spent on the design which is yet to take- off, which also includes Rs 8 crore spent on gravestone- laying form conducted by the Public Works Department in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016.

Shivaji Statue Controversy:-

When the statue of King Shivaji collapsed within eight months after it was unveiled in Maharashtra by the Prime Minister, the political wrangling began. The politics underlines the fact that it was n’t just a statue that fell, it reflects the fraying fabric of a State. On December 4, 2023, Narendra Modi visited Malwan megacity in the Sindhudurg quarter of Maharashtra, where the Indian Navy celebrated its Navy Day. He spoke endlessly about the Maratha conglomerate’s author. Shivaji is inextricably linked to identity in Maharashtra. The statue reportedly bring Maharashtra government Rs. 2.36 crore and it was installed by the Navy. On August 26, 2024, when the statue fell, vids and prints went viral. Shivaji’s followers were mealy. The State and Centre came under fire. Understanding the graveness of the situation, two ministers from the State press, Ravindra Chavan and Deepak Kesarkar rushed to the position. Chavan is the guardian minister of Sindhudurg as well as the Minister for the Public Works Department. The Department had given the tender to the artist Jaydeep Apte. As people started probing about the artist Apte, they set up that he’s inexperienced in erecting a statue of 25 bases. In an interview with a Marathi review, just after Modi unveiled the statue, Apte said that he’d no experience and had been making statues of two to four bases. So how did such an ill- educated artist bag the tender? The buzz is that Apte is close to some of the right- sect organisations from Kalyan City. Chavan is from the Kalyan Dombivali external council area. The questions of favouritism are now being raised.