The battle for Shivaji ; Plans for a memorial on the Maratha hero run into trouble as political parties jostle for gains.

India Today | July 6, 2009| | Copyright

If New York has the Statue of Liberty, Mumbai will soon be able to boast of a towering Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj memorial. That's the gift the Democratic Front Government has planned for Maharashtra to commemorate the golden jubilee year of the state's birth.

Standing at 309 ft in the Arabian Sea, the statue will have the Maratha warrior atop a horse, surrounded by lush gardens and a museum with rare artefacts from the era. The grand celebrations come at a price of over Rs 300 crore. But it's not the cost that is giving politicians sleepless nights; the memorial committee is locked in a ...

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