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Will write letter to PM Modi, Union education minister to change IIT Bombay's name to IIT Mumbai: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis.
Maharashtra CM Fadnavis plans to request renaming IIT Bombay to IIT Mumbai after political backlash over Union Minister Jitendra Singh's remarks and MNS leader Raj Thackeray's criticism.
- On Wednesday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said he will write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to rename Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as IIT Mumbai.
- Jitendra Singh's comments at IIT Bombay, made on Monday, touched off criticism from Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray, who accused the Centre of a mindset that undermines Marathi identity.
- Raj Thackeray, MNS president, alleged a decades-long plan to separate Marathi Mumbai from Maharashtra and compared it to the Centre's attempt to take Chandigarh, warning of central overreach.
- Because renaming falls to the Centre, the final decision on IIT Bombay's name rests with the Centre and relevant central departments as Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections raise political stakes.
- Given the institute's stature, IIT Bombay recently placed 71st in the QS Asia University Rankings 2026 and was lauded by Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, as a consistent partner since its 1958 founding.
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Amid escalating Bombay versus Mumbai row, the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said that the BJP had a big role in renaming Bombay as Mumbai, adding that he will request the Prime Minister to rename IIT Bombay as IIT Mumbai.
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Rename IIT Bombay to IIT Mumbai: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis to write letter to PM Modi
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said Wednesday he will make an appeal by writing a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to rename the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay to IIT Mumbai. “I will write to the PM and Union HRD minister requesting them to consider our demand for renaming IIT Bombay as IIT Mumbai," said the CM. The decision comes amid Maharashtra Navnirman Sena…
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