Ashwini Bhide had firmly dissipated misinformation and fake news regarding environmental concerns related to the Aarey Metro car shed project. Her stand had angered Sena prince Aaditya Thackeray.
Raut's delayed response on Veer Savarkar come after a huge controversy that had erupted across the country following Rahul Gandhi's cheap dig on Savarkar in December 2019.
Shiv Sena leader and Thackeray-scion Aaditya Thackeray had also dismissed the 'Free Kashmir' placard at the protests and said that we need to "look at the larger picture".
"Our government was not in power until now. We have just managed to form a government. I have just taken oath as a minister. We are yet to fill our pockets", the Congress minister was seen saying.
The previous government, led by BJP had planned to name the Mumbai Nagpur expressway after late Atal Bihari Vajpayee and had even submitted the proposal for the same to then chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.