Deputy CM Ajit Pawar at the BMC headquarters with the then CM Uddhav Thackeray and former Cabinet Minister Aaditya Thackeray, in January 2021.  When Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar visited the BMC headquarters on January 28, 2021, to inaugurate the Heritage Walk, it marked the first time the 128-year-old civic building was opened to tourists.

Pawar, a prominent and widely respected leader from the Maratha community, was told about the ‘Maratha Ditch’ — a deep trench built by the East India Company to protect British-controlled structures from possible Maratha attacks during India’s freedom struggle.