Shiv Sena MPs Vinayak Raut and Arvind Sawant on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and reiterated a long-standing demand of the Shiv Sena to rename the Bombay High Court as Mumbai High Court.
In their letter to Mr Modi, Vinayak Raut, who represents the Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg Lok Sabha constituency in Konkan, said, “In accordance with central government orders, Bombay (the English name coined by the British rulers) was officially changed to Mumbai in 1995. But the Bombay High Court is one of the few institutions in Maharashtra that continue to carry the old name of the city.”
He said since 2005, the Shiv Sena has been pursuing the issue to rename the Bombay High Court, but the Centre had ignored the issue and “hurt the sentiments of Mumbai’s citizens”. The MPs appealed to the Prime Minister to take a decision in their favour.
