The Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena has revived the party’s demand for a life-size statue of the 17th Century Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on the premises of Mumbai’s iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), a World Heritage Site. Rahul Shewale, the party’s Mumbai South Central MP and a Shinde camp leader, has written a letter to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in this regard.

Since 2016, a team led by artists from Sir JJ School of Art had been working on the 25-foot-tall statue, which was originally to be installed in front of platform 18 of CSMT near the entry-exit on P D’Mello Road. Sources said the statue is in a workshop at Wadi Bunder near Sandhurst Road at present.