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Govt planning to shift RBI to Delhi, says Rane

Senior Maharashtra Congress leader Narayan Rane on Wednesday accused the Centre of planning to shift the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to New Delhi and dilute Mumbai’s status as the country’s commercial capital.

Rane, who is state industry minister, said the process has already begun by moving out three RBI departments out of Mumbai a couple of months ago, but declined to name them.

‘We shall strongly oppose any such move to downgrade Mumbai’s global status as well as reduce its importance as the commercial capital of India. I have already written to chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar to intervene in the matter,’ Rane told mediapersons here.

He added that various governments at the Centre have been eyeing the status of Mumbai island and many decades ago, even the late Morarji Desai had attempted to link the city with Gujarat.

However, following a massive agitation (1956-196) and sacrifice of 105 people, Mumbai (then called Bombay) was retained with Maharashtra and the Marathi-speaking state was separated from Gujarat in the erstwhile bilingual Bombay state.

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