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Mumbai: Confusion over Mohammed Ali Road caused uproar again

BMC to verify after whom is Mohammed Ali Road named - a poet-journalist and Khilafat movement leader Maulana Mohammed Ali Jauhar (1873-1931) or the famous 19th-century philanthropist Nakhuda Mohammed Ali Rogay.

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Mohammed Ali Road, in South Mumbai, is famous for its food during Ramzan, is known for its chaotic food stalls and lanes. But now it has stirred a different confusion and chaos altogether. The BMC has been asked to clear the confusion and come up with an answer about which Mohammed Ali out of two— Nakhuda Mohammed Ali Roghe or Maulana Mohammed Ali Jauhar -- the road is named after.

This being an old issue has surfaced again, when a group of Urdu writers met Congress MLA Amin Patel to get BMC to verify after whom is Mohammed Ali Road named - a poet-journalist and Khilafat movement leader Maulana Mohammed Ali Jauhar (1873-1931) or the famous 19th-century philanthropist Nakhuda Mohammed Ali Rogay.

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