Maharashtra’s Aurangabad and Osmanabad cities have been renamed as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and Dharashiv respectively. The Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday approved the proposals and said it had no objection to renaming the cities. The demand for changing the name of Aurangabad and Osmanabad was first made by the late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray. Former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray had taken a decision to change these names in his last Cabinet meeting as the chief minister before his govt collapsed in 2022.