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I am paying my respects to them by placing my profile photo with the logo of Maharashtra Police, Aaditya Thackeray said while urging people to join the endeavour.

Amid the rising number of coronavirus cases and police personnel in Maharashtra testing positive for the global pandemic, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh urged people to support the Maharashtra Police by changing their changing the display of their social media accounts.

Taking to Twitter, Deshmukh wrote: Maharashtra Police has stood by citizens thro' calamities, attacks and disasters. Today as they lead the war on Corona on the streets, I've decided to celebrate them by changing my DP on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc to the Maharashtra Police logo.

Soon after the NCP leader urged people to join him in the noble endeavour, people across politics, sports, film industry and even took to social media to honour Maharashtra Police.