Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Monday extended his greetings to the people of the state on Maharashtra Day and said that '105 people sacrificed their lives to establish the state.'

"Maharashtra is an important state of the country, there is a nation in Maharashtra itself, in a city like Mumbai, there is a whole nation's language, 105 people sacrificed for the establishment and construction of Maharashtra," Raut said.