Mumbai: Today is the 93rd birth anniversary of the Shiv Sena founder Bala Saheb Thackeray and the party is organising a grand event at the city mayor’s bungalow. The event is expected to be attended by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and Mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar.
Here, A Mumbai-based artist has created a portrait of Bal Thackeray with 33,000 rudraksha beads and it has been put up in front of the Shiv Sena Bhavan in Dadar. A picture of the rudraksha portrait, designed by Chetan Raut.
Raut said that, “Balasaheb Thackeray had a special relationship with rudraksha, so I wanted this portrait to be made of it. It is an 8 x 8 feet portrait and is made up of 33,000 rudrakshas, I tried to make a world record.”
On Tuesday, Apart from a grand event and the rudraksha portrait, the Maharashtra government decided to build a memorial for Bal Thackeray at the cost of Rs 100 crores. The memorial will be located at Dadar where the last rites of the Shiv Sena founder were performed. The decision to construct a memorial was taken at a meeting of the cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
cabinet minister Sudhir Mungantiwar informed that Funds for the memorial will be provided by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA)
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