President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday wished the people on Maharashtra Day and said that the sacred land of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj inspires us with a spirit of patriotism, courage, and self-respect.
Maharashtra Day, commonly known as Maharashtra Diwas, is celebrated to mark the bifurcation of the "Bombay" state on a linguistic basis into two states: Gujarat and Maharashtra.
The MNS chief further said that further slammed Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar for spreading poison-like caste politics.
Maharashtra Diwas or Maharashtra Din is a state holiday, commemorating the formation of the state of Maharashtra from the division of the Bombay State on 1 May 1960.
On the film front, he is currently working on a remake of Forrest Gump, titled Lal Singh Chadda.
Earlier in the day, Maoists torched at least three dozen vehicles belonging to private contractors in Kurkheda sub-district of Gadchiroli.
