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Mumbai: In September 2019, a Polish delegation visited Maharashtras Kolhapur with the countrys deputy foreign minister, laying the foundation stone for a memorial pillar in the districts Valivade village, about eight kilometres from Kolhapur city...
Five years on, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who went to Poland Monday, visited a similar memorial in the countrys capital, Warsaw..
This marks the first visit to Poland by an Indian prime minister in 45 years..
Modis visit to the memorial in Warsaw and his verbal tribute to the royal family of Kolhapur is also politically significant considering it comes about two months ahead of assembly polls in Maharashtra...
The pillar, meanwhile, already looks worn out, with moss and dirt covering parts of the white structure and parts of the paint having chipped away.. Kusale told ThePrint that some of the barracks that housed Polish families were later used for rehabilitating a few Pakistani Sindhi people who had crossed over to India after partition..
