VIDEO | Maharashtra Ministers Sudhir Mungantiwar and Uday Samant signed an MoU with the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London to bring back a 17th century 'Tiger Claws' weapon believed to have belonged to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to India, earlier today. pic.twitter.com/7JDM1uOKyz
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Maharashtra Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar shared a video clip providing the glimpses of 'Wagh Nakh' (tiger claw) used by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, ANI reported.
#WATCH | 'Wagh Nakh' (tiger claw) used by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj will be brought to India for a period of three years from London's Victoria and Albert Museum
(Source: Maharashtra Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar ) pic.twitter.com/qhRMjN5djE
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Shivaji Maharaj used the 'wagh nakh' to assassinate Bijapur Mughal commander Afzal Khan in 1659.
A squabble has developed, with Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray wondering if the 'wagh nakh' received from a museum in the United Kingdom will stay permanently or be loaned out, and whether it belonged to Shivaji Maharaj or was from that era.
Earlier this month, after the news of Maharashtra ministers to travel to the UK to bring back wagh nakh to India came out, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Sanjay Raut called it an insult to the wagh nakh since the Shiv Sena is Shivaji's true wagh nakh (tiger claw). The weapon will be loaned to India for three years.
"What will you do by bringing the weapon which was used to protect the self-respect and integrity of Maharashtra? You have made the state a slave of Delhi," Sanjay Raut had said
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