Overview
- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said he will write to the Prime Minister and the Union Education Ministry requesting that IIT Bombay be renamed IIT Mumbai.
- Union minister Jitendra Singh had told an IIT Bombay event he was glad the institute had not been renamed to Mumbai, citing IIT Madras as another example.
- MNS chief Raj Thackeray condemned the remark as reflective of a hostile mindset toward Marathi identity and urged residents to be vigilant.
- MNS workers placed a banner outside the campus symbolically ‘renaming’ the institute to IIT Mumbai as the rhetoric intensified ahead of civic polls.
- BJP figures rejected the accusations and noted their role in the 1995 Bombay-to-Mumbai change, with Kirit Somaiya saying a formal proposal will go to the Centre and suggesting the Bombay High Court be retitled Mumbai High Court.