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Article: Mumbai-Pune Expressway named after YB Chavan
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- The Hindustan Times
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- July 9, 2009
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Mumbai, July. 09 -- Even before political dust kicked up by it through its decision to christen of Bandra-Worli sea link after late Rajiv Gandhi could settle down, the Congress-led DF Government on Wednesday unleashed a fresh controversy by naming the 94 km Mumbai-Pune Expressway after late veteran Congress leader YB Chavan.
On a day it issued a formal notification naming India's first open sea bridge after the former Prime Minister, the Ashok Chavan dispensation once again rubbed the Opposition Shiv Sena-BJP alliance the wrong way, as it sought to cash in on the legacy of late YB Chavan, the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra and a former Deputy Prime Minister, in the run-up to the State ...