Mumbai University should confer D.Litt on Dange: Shelar

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Press Trust of India Mumbai
Last Updated : Mar 25 2017 | 8:07 PM IST
Mumbai University should confer D. Litt posthumously on communist leader Shripad Amrut Dange, city BJP unit chief Ashish Shelar today said.
"When the Mumbai University had planned to confer him D.Litt in the 90s, I was with ABVP and we had opposed the move. After reading the biography, I realised that we did make a mistake," Shelar said at the function held to release of a biography of Dange.
"I want to correct the past mistake; hence I wrote a letter to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Mumbai University vice-chancellor Sanjay Deshmukh to confer D.Litt on Dange," said Shelar.
The biography is written by Rosa Deshpande, daughter of Dange.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and former union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde were also present at the book launch.

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First Published: Mar 25 2017 | 8:07 PM IST

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