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Nation's name change sought after INDIA alliance scare?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now reportedly trying to bring in a resolution renaming India as 'Bharat' during the upcoming special session of Parliament (scheduled from Sept 18 to 22) with the sole intention of somehow distracting people from his own failures in our country. The Supreme Court in a 2016 judgement has clearly said that "The Indian citizens are free to call their country as India or Bharat as per their wishes' whilst dismissing a PIL which had sought a direction that India be called as 'Bharat' for all purposes then why is the Modi government still trying to rename India as 'Bharat' and that too after nine years, just before the fast-approaching 2024 Lok Sabha elections?

And, if the Modi government was really allergic or not comfortable with the word 'India' then why was it  coming out with programmes/schemes like Digital India, Start up India, Make in India etc right from 2014 to woo all the upcoming talented guys of all the Indian companies  in our country? I think that the reason why the Modi government is desperately trying to rename India as 'Bharat' is  because it is currently very much disturbed after seeing the unity of the INDIA alliance and its ever-growing popularity in some parts of India.




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Changing name of country will have wider ramifications

ADELMO FERNANDES, Vasco
Published Sep 6, 2023, 8:14 PM IST
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It is learnt that the opposition parties have alleged that the government is planning to drop ‘India’ and stay with just ‘Bharat’ as the country’s name. Confirming that Bharat has been used as the name of the country in some of the documents relating to G20, sources have said that it is a conscious decision. Whether it is a move to counter the move of the opposition parties naming the alliance as INDIA bloc is anybody’s guess. Be that as it may, changing the name of the…

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