Will Hyderabad get a new name? Speculation stirred up political circles on Sunday after Prime Minister Narendra referred to the Telangana capital as Bhagyanagar – a name with roots in the city’s Hindu cultural heritage, during his speech at the BJP’s national executive meeting in Hyderabad. Was.
The Prime Minister said that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had laid the foundation of ‘Ek Bharat’ (United India) by integrating this region into the Sangh and it is the historic responsibility of BJP to build ‘Shreshtha Bharat’.
“PM Modi said Hyderabad is Bhagyanagar which is important for all of us. Sardar Patel had laid the foundation of unity India In Hyderabad and now it is the responsibility of the BJP to take it forward,” BJP leader Ravi Shankar Yadav said at the national meeting, quoting PM Modi.
“Whatever is good in the country belongs to every Indian,” Modi said, adding that the BJP believes in this philosophy and hence it celebrates leaders like Patel.
The renaming of Hyderabad has been a BJP demand for a long time, and leaders have been pitching for it time and again.
Reacting to the discussion of the name change, Union Minister Piyush Goyal, who also participated in the BJP working meeting, reportedly said that any decision in this regard would be taken by the Chief Minister in consultation with his cabinet minister when the BJP in the state. came to power. – On which at present Telangana National Committee’s K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s rule.
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Just two days ago, BJP leader and former Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das had said that Hyderabad would be renamed as Bhagyanagar if the party came to power in the state.
The BJP’s decision to choose Hyderabad as the venue for its executive meeting this year is also believed to be a strategic attempt to strengthen the party’s base in the states where it wants to grab power.
This perhaps also indicates that Telangana is a top priority for the BJP and elections are due in the state next year. The importance of Telangana for the BJP was also reflected in PM Modi’s speech where he said that the all-round development of the state is among the top priorities of the BJP.
“The people of Telangana are known all over the world for their hard work and dedication towards the development of the country. The development of Telangana, all round development, is one of the first priorities of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Following the mantra of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas and Sabka Prayas, we are continuously striving for the development of Telangana.
In the two-day executive meeting, the BJP took stock of its organizational activities and appreciated the economic policies and overall governance of the Modi government. Party leaders said issues such as the killing of a tailor by Islamic fundamentalists in Udaipur and the Nupur Sharma controversy were not discussed in the meeting, although the obituary reference mentioned tailor Kanhaiya Lal.
(with PTI inputs)
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