Congress refuses to rename Ahemdabad
Habshi
Ahmedabad won’t be Karnavati
Rathin Das
(Ahmedabad, June 8)
THE CONTROVERSIAL chapter on the proposed renaming of Ahmedabad as
Karnavati has finally been closed. On Thursday, the Congress-dominated
municipal corporation here annulled an earlier resolution on the
subject, passed in 1990 when the BJP ruled the civic body, amid noisy
protests from the Opposition.
During the campaign for the civic elections last year, the Congress
had promised that it would rescind the move to rename the city. A
public interest litigation against the renaming has also been pending
in the Gujarat High Court since the past two years.
The Sangh Parivar wanted the city renamed due to the existence of an
ancient Karnamukteshwar temple here. In 1995, when the BJP came to
power in the State, a resolution in this regard was passed in the
Assembly. However, the renaming could not be carried out as the then
Prime Ministers Deva Gowda and later I.K.Gujral, did not okay the
move.
The Parivar hopes soared again when the BJP returned to power in the
State and formed the BJP-led NDA Ministry at the Centre.
But, once again their hopes were dashed as Home Minister L.K. Advani
said the renaming could not be done as the subject was not on the
agenda approved by the alliance partners.
For the Parivar, the municipal corporation's latest move to nullify
the 1990 resolution comes as the last nail in the coffin.
Niraj Agarwalla
> Congress is determined to make India into a Muslim state .
What is next on the agenda Allahabad?
Personally, I don't like this renaming of cities, like stripping part of
its soul. I like the way Bombay, Calcutta and Madras sound. I still use
it most of the time in conversation and in my writing.
--
Niraj Agarwalla - ni...@primushost.com - http://www.primushost.com/~niraj
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>
>> Congress is determined to make India into a Muslim state .
>
> What is next on the agenda Allahabad?
Even if we stick to the Muslim name, it should be ILAHABAD. That
is what most of the inhabitants of that city call it.
Of course, the anglicized crowd used to names like Allahabad and
Bombay is inconvenienced when we revert to native pronunciations,
but why is that any worse than a much larger number of native
people having to learn these phony versions?
Anil