[ad_1]
MUMBAI: Celebrations of the 60th day of the founding of the state of Maharashtra were moderated on Friday due to the coronavirus pandemic with Governor B Koshyari raising the national flag at the Raj Bhavan here in place of Shivaji Park in central Mumbai, where the ceremony is held annually.
The governor displayed the tricolor in the Raj Bhavan this morning, after which the national anthem was sung. Officers and staff from Raj Bhavan, Mumbai Police personnel and the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) were present. No ceremonial parade was held on the occasion.
In a separate ceremony in the Mantralaya, the secretary of state, Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray unfurled the national flag and adorned the portraits of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, B R Ambedkar, Rajmata Jijabai.
Mumbai’s mayor Kishori Pednekar, the state’s chief secretary Ajoy Mehta, and others were on the occasion.
Thackeray himself drove his car from his ‘Matoshree’ residence in the Bandra suburbs and stopped at Hutatma Chowk before continuing to Mantralaya.
He paid floral tributes at the Martyrs Monument in Hutatma Chowk, built in honor of the 105 members of the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti, who lost their lives while fighting for a separate state of Maharashtra.
This is the first time that the raising of flags on the day of the state’s founding took place in Shivaji Park and Mantralaya.
According to general practice, the Prime Minister raises the tricolor in Mantralaya on Independence Day, while the Governor raises the flag at Raj Bhavan in Pune that day.
The governor hoists the tricolor in Shivaji Park on Republic Day and Maharashtra Day.
The current Maharashtra was born this day in 1960.
[ad_2]
The governor displayed the tricolor in the Raj Bhavan this morning, after which the national anthem was sung. Officers and staff from Raj Bhavan, Mumbai Police personnel and the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) were present. No ceremonial parade was held on the occasion.
In a separate ceremony in the Mantralaya, the secretary of state, Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray unfurled the national flag and adorned the portraits of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, B R Ambedkar, Rajmata Jijabai.
Mumbai’s mayor Kishori Pednekar, the state’s chief secretary Ajoy Mehta, and others were on the occasion.
Thackeray himself drove his car from his ‘Matoshree’ residence in the Bandra suburbs and stopped at Hutatma Chowk before continuing to Mantralaya.
He paid floral tributes at the Martyrs Monument in Hutatma Chowk, built in honor of the 105 members of the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti, who lost their lives while fighting for a separate state of Maharashtra.
This is the first time that the raising of flags on the day of the state’s founding took place in Shivaji Park and Mantralaya.
According to general practice, the Prime Minister raises the tricolor in Mantralaya on Independence Day, while the Governor raises the flag at Raj Bhavan in Pune that day.
The governor hoists the tricolor in Shivaji Park on Republic Day and Maharashtra Day.
The current Maharashtra was born this day in 1960.
