Ajit Pawar apologizes to people for the fall of Shivaji Maharaj’s statue

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday apologized to the people of Maharashtra for the incident of the fall of the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Malvan Fort in coastal Konkan region. He said that the fall of the statue within a year (of unveiling) is shocking. The statue fell on Monday, just eight months after it was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 4 last year. After this, an FIR has been registered against the contractor of the construction work of this statue. The FIR was registered after a complaint by the Public Works Department, which claimed that the construction of the statue was of poor quality and the nuts and bolts used in the statue were rusted.