The Modi-led Central government is likely to bring a fresh resolution during the Special Session of Parliament to rename India as Bharat, mentioned sources.
The name change of India to Bharat is Bharatiya Janata Party’s long-standing demand. In December 2022, Mitesh Patel, BJP MP from Anand in Gujarat raised a question in the Lok Sabha about renaming India as “Bharat” or “Bharatvarsh” as deliberated by the Constituent Assembly in September 1949.
Patel claimed that “India” signifies the “slavery that the country was subjected to”, as the name was given by the British East India Company.
The Narendra Modi-led Central government, which has been emphasising liberating the people of the country from the “slavery mentality” and any elements related to such a psyche during the ongoing “Amrit Kaal”, is reportedly planning to remove the word “India” from the Constitution, sources in the know of things claimed, adding that a preparation pertaining to the proposal is underway. (News18)
