Speaking to reporters here over the weekend, Shirsat said Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar was earlier known as Khadki, and later renamed as Aurangabad.”Likewise, Khultabad was earlier known as Ratnapur. Names of many places were changed during the reign of Aurangzeb. We are going to change the name of Khultabad to Ratnapur,” the Shiv Sena leader said.”We are conducting a process of changing the names of all those places having ‘bad’ (like Auranga’bad’) in their names. Ratnapur was changed to Khultabad during Aurangzeb’s rule,” the guardian minister of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district said.The government is positive about making a memorial there (in Khultabad) which will showcase the history of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and his son Sambhaji Maharaj, Shirsat said.
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