Fadnavis, BJP leaders pay tribute to Shivaji at Raigad fort

A new king has emerged on BJP’s horizon after civic polls in Maharastra. The newly elected corporators of Nagpur Municipal Corporation queued up at Ramgiri, Chief Minister residence at Nagpur, to seek blessings of Devendra Fadnavis on Friday morning in Nagpur.

Basking in BJP’s success in the civic and Zilla Parishad polls, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today paid floral tributes to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at the Raigad fort on Saturday morning.

He was accompanied by Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil, Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, Education Minister Vinod Tawde, State BJP president Raosaheb Danve and Mumbai party president Ashish Shelar.

The leaders garlanded the statue of the warrior king situated at the fort in Raigad district, which was his capital in 1674 when he was crowned King of the Maratha Kingdom.

A statue of the Maratha warrior and his samadhi are situated at this fort, nearly 170 km from here.

During the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly elections after registering a thumping victory in the Lok Sabha polls, BJP had launched the its campaign for Assembly polls with a call ’Chhatrapati Shivaji ka ashirwad, chalo chale Modi ke saath’

Till then, Shiv Sena considered Shivaji Maharaj as its icon.

“Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki Jai! Jai Bhavani, Jai Shivaji!. Feeling blessed,” Fadanvis tweeted after his visit.