Marotrao Barbate, an active member of the Forward Bloc, the party founded by Netaji. The Forward Bloc’s first session was held at Nagpur ( Netaji arrived Nagpur for 5 day long session in 1940) and Marotrao Barbate who use to live in itwari built the statue around 1957( first statue of Nagpur) to honour Netaji.
May be there is no direct connection between Netaji and itwari but Netaji was in Nagpur for first session of The Forward Bloc's.
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And it not politics it was people's demand and NMC passed the resolution and send it to state government.