Bengaluru’s Shivajinagar metro station renaming sparks row, to be renamed as…, controversy started after…

The Karnataka CM had, during a recent event in Shivajinagar's St Mary's Basilica, said that he had recommended to Centre that the upcoming metro station be named after St Mary.

This drew a sharp response from Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, who condemned the plan. “I condemn the Karnataka government's move to rename Shivajinagar metro station in Bengaluru after St Mary. Its an insult to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj,” PTI news agency quoted Fadnavis as saying.

Fadnavis alleged that Congress had a “tradition of insulting” the Maratha warrior king from “the time of Nehru who made comments against Shivaji Maharaj in his book Discovery of India.”