Kolkata: Amid the controversy, triggered after the invitation for the G20 dinner despatched out within the identify of ‘President of Bharat’ and never India, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that historical past is being rewritten within the nation. The Trinamool Congress supremo questioned the Centre and requested what modified out of the blue that we must always use solely Bharat.
“…As we speak, they (Centre) modified the identify of India. Within the invitation card for the G20 Summit dinner, it’s talked about ‘Bharat’…In English, we are saying ‘India’ and the ‘Indian Structure’ and in Hindi, we are saying ‘Bharat ka Samvidhan’. All of us say ‘Bharat’, what’s new on this? However the identify ‘India’ is understood to the world…What occurred out of the blue that they needed to change the identify of the nation?… Historical past is being rewritten within the nation,” CM Mamata mentioned.
Earlier within the day, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh claimed that Rashtrapati Bhawan has despatched out an invitation for a G20 dinner on September 9 within the identify of ‘President of Bharat’ as an alternative of the same old ‘President of India’.
Ramesh accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “distorting historical past and dividing India” and mentioned the target of events within the INDIA bloc can be “BHARAT – Carry Concord, Amity, Reconciliation And Belief.”
“So the information is certainly true. Rashtrapati Bhawan has despatched out an invitation for a G20 dinner on Sept ninth within the identify of ‘President of Bharat’ as an alternative of the same old ‘President of India’. Now, Article 1 within the Structure can learn: “Bharat, that was India, shall be a Union of States.” However now even this “Union of States” is underneath assault,” Ramesh mentioned on ‘X’, previously often called Twitter.
“Mr Modi can proceed to distort historical past and divide India, that’s Bharat, that may be a Union of States. However we is not going to be deterred. In spite of everything, what’s the goal of INDIA events? It’s BHARAT—Carry Concord, Amity, Reconciliation And Belief. Judega BHARAT Jeetega INDIA!” he added.
In the meantime, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar additionally lashed out at Congress and mentioned that the nation was Bharat and can at all times stay Bharat.
“They’ve an issue with every thing and I don’t wish to say something for them. I’m a ‘Bharatwaasi’, the identify of my nation was ‘Bharat’ and can stay ‘Bharat’ at all times. If Congress has an issue with this, they need to discover a remedy for it themselves,” the Union Minister mentioned whereas talking to ANI.
Union Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan additionally endorsed the President for utilizing Bharat on the official G20 invitation.
‘Bharat’ is our introduction. We’re pleased with it. The President has given precedence to ‘Bharat’. That is the most important assertion to come back out of the colonial mindset”mentioned the Minister.
