Government will reject proposal for Thackeray memorial at Shivaji Park: Official

MUMBAI: The government will reject any proposal for a memorial of Bal Thackeray on the Shivaji Park grounds, a senior bureaucrat said on Tuesday. He said this will be done even if the proposal came from Shiv Sena leader and former chief minister Manohar Joshi.

Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan declined to comment on the issue, saying it would be wrong to comment on a non-existing proposal . "I have no comments; there is no such proposal." The bureaucrat said, "Shivaji Park is a playground and as per the rules, no memorial can be constructed on a playground. Further, the government does not want litigation on such a controversial proposal."

While debate on the issue goes on, Thackeray's son and Sena executive president Uddhav said the time was not right to engage in it. "Our entire family is in grief... I don't want to get into a debate on the memorial. Please cooperate with us."

A section of senior Sena leaders were unhappy over the manner in which Joshi raised the issue of the memorial, that too just a day after the party chief 's death. "We feel the demand for the memorial was made in haste," a leader said.

Within the ruling alliance , minister of state for urban development Bhaskar Jadhav (of the NCP) is at the receiving end for saying on Monday that the government would consider the proposal if it was mooted. "We feel it was his personal view, since the NCP has not taken a stand on the issue," a senior NCP leader said.

On the government's decision to allow Thackeray's funeral to be held at Shivaji Park and with state honours, the bureaucrat said the decision was well within the powers of the state government, particularly the chief minister. "Thackeray was thus honoured in view of his contribution to the cause of Maharashtra . While he was the head of a political party , it gave two chief ministers to the state."

He also said it was not necessary for a person to have held state office to deserve a state funeral. "In the past, leading personalities have been given state funerals in view of their social contributions. State funeral was given to noted artiste Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, social worker Baba Amte, poets Narayan Surve and V V Shirwadkar, and spiritual leaders Pandurang Shastri Athavale and Wamanrao Pai."

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