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No tree will be cut for Bal Thackeray memorial: Maharashtra CM Uddhav

Talking to reporters, he said instead, indigenous tree species will be planted at Priyadarshini Garden, the site of the proposed memorial here in central Maharashtra

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Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray | Photo: PTI

Press Trust of India Aurangabad
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said not a single tree will be cut at the site where a memorial to Shiv Sena founder, the late Bal Thackeray, has been proposed in the city.

Talking to reporters, he said instead, indigenous tree species will be planted at Priyadarshini Garden, the site of the proposed memorial here in central Maharashtra.

Thackeray visited Priyadarshini Garden and after examining the location of the memorial and its related plan, said more trees should be planted at the site.

The garden was at the centre of a controversy after Amruta Fadnavis, the wife of former Maharashtra chief