Members of the Navi Mumbai airport all-party action committee have expressed displeasure over the Maharashtra government’s “delay” in getting approval from the Centre to name the upcoming airport after late leader D B Patil.
As a mark of protest, the committee members put up signboards naming roads in three villages near the upcoming airport after D B Patil, who was a Member of Parliament (MP).
Late D B Patil had led several protests by farmers and landowners surrounding Panvel tehsil in Raigad district when the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) acquired land in the area decades ago.
In July last year, the Maharashtra cabinet led by Eknath Shinde cleared the proposal to name the upcoming Navi Mumbai international airport after D B Patil.
The action committee led by Dashrath Patil held a brief function on Wednesday, in which its members and local villagers put up signboards on three roads leading to the upcoming airport that read ‘Loknete D B Patil International Airport, Navi Mumbai’.
