Maharashtra culture minister set to leave for London to bring back Shivaji Maharaj’s weapon

The Tiger Claws will be given to the Maharashtra government by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum on a loan for three years and would be displayed at the museums in the state, the Government Resolution issued by the state government earlier this week had stated. On Sunday night Mungantiwar will leave for London from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport after paying floral tribute to the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at the airport.

Earlier Mungantiwar had announced that the state government has decided to bring back the Tiger Claws to India from London on the 350th anniversary of King Shivaji’s coronation celebration.

On Tuesday, October 3, he will visit the Victoria and Albert Museum to meet with Tristan Hunt, director of the museum, and sign the agreement.

Meanwhile, as Mungantiwar is set to visit London to sign an agreement to bring back the Tiger Claws from there, Opposition leaders in the state including Shiv Sena UBT and NCP raised questions whether the Tiger Claws which will be brought to India in November are the same one which were used by Shivaji Maharaj.

“We will be very happy if the Tiger Claws used by Shivaji Maharaj are brought back to India permanently. We all will welcome the whole cabinet and felicitate them. But is it being brought on loan for some period or permanently? I also want to ask if these are the same Wagh Nakha which was used Shivaji Maharaj or is it Shiv Kalin Tiger Claws (from Shivaji’s era),” Aaditya Thackeray said.

NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad posted a video of historian Indrajit Sawant on social media in which Sawant is claiming that claims that the Tiger Claws being brought back were used by Shivaji Maharaj is wrong.