BJP ministers on renaming spree

It seems that BJP’s ministers are absolutely on a wild goose chase, as far as renaming is concerned. They are in a renaming spree of states, cities, villages, and even roads at their own whim and fancy, tampering with the very ethos of this country.

On one such occasion on Saturday, one of Yogi Adityanath’s ministers and allies advised the BJP to change the names of its frontline Muslim members before renaming places founded by Muslim rulers.

As quoted in Telegraph India, Om Prakash Rajbhar- backward class welfare minister told reporters in Lucknow, “Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is Union minister for minority affairs, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain is BJP national spokesperson and Mohsin Raza is Uttar Pradesh minister for minority affairs. I demand that the government and the BJP change their names before carrying on renaming cities that have Muslim names.”

Rajbhar is also the president of the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party which has four Assembly seats and claims to represent the ‘Most Backward Castes’. He further said the renaming spree by BJP was a ‘drama’ to divert people’s attention from the ‘real issues’ of joblessness and poverty in the country.

He added, “The government changed the name of Mughalsarai railway station, Faizabad district and Allahabad because Muslim rulers had founded these places. But the hypocritical BJP politicians don’t think of changing the names of their own Muslim leaders.”

Notebly, Mughalsarai has been renamed after RSS ideologue Deendayal Upadhyay while Allahabad and Faizabad have been renamed Prayagraj and Ayodhya, respectively. BJP has also proposed to rename Ahmedabad as Karnavati and Muzaffarnagar as Laxminagar.

Commenting on the issue, he further added that the BJP government would never be able to give the country what Muslim kings had given it; “Can we delete from history that Sher Shah Suri built the Grand Trunk Road and Shah Jahan gave us the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort?”

So far, no BJP leader from Uttar Pradesh was ready to comment on the matter. On condition of anonymity, a BJP spokesperson said that senior leaders were keenly watching Rajbhar’s activities.

Almost a fortnght ago, Rajbhar had accused the BJP of misleading and dividing the people by talking of a Ram temple before the general elections 2019.

Earlier too, he had accused the BJP of forgetting the people after its poll victories and called Adityanath’s government corrupt.

In the midst of all these chaos, we wonder why the PM of India is keeping quite. What is happening to India’s ideology of ‘Únity in diversity’.

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