Pune, July 4 -- Five days after scrapping his government's orders on a three-language policy that had made Hindi a compulsory subject in primary schools, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today extolled the virtues of the erstwhile Maratha empire,
Speaking at a progrramme in the National Defence Academy (NDA) here in Kharakvasla, where a statue or Thorle Bajirao Peshwa was unveiled by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Fadnavis
described Peshwa Bajirao as "very brave" and highlighted his success in the expansion of the Maratha power in the south and Kabul in the north, as also all the way to Bengal.
"The work of establishing or expanding Hindavi Swarajya and the Maratha Empire in the then undivided India, including East, West an...