Can Malang-gad be Maharashtra’s Ayodhya for CM Shinde?

Jan 27, 2024 | 20:50 IST

With state assembly and Lok Sabha elections due later this year, Eknath Shinde has declared the ‘liberation’ of Malan-gad, a centuries-old Sufi shrine located on a hill less than 60km from Mumbai, as his mission

A mandir-masjid dispute, dormant for centuries with only sporadic stirrings, is being dusted and readied to fire in the run-up to the state assembly and Lok Sabha elections later this year in Maharashtra.

The first sign that Malang-gad – located on a 789-ft hill in Ambernath in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) in Thane district – will be the centerpiece of the election season has come from chief minister Eknath Shinde himself.

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Can Malang-gad be Maharashtra’s Ayodhya for CM Shinde?

With state assembly and Lok Sabha elections due later this year, Eknath Shinde has declared the ‘liberation’ of Malan-gad, a centuries-old Sufi shrine located on a hill less than 60km from Mumbai, as his mission

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Can Malang-gad be Maharashtra’s Ayodhya for CM Shinde?

With state assembly and Lok Sabha elections due later this year, Eknath Shinde has declared the ‘liberation’ of Malan-gad, a centuries-old Sufi shrine located on a hill less than 60km from Mumbai, as his mission

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