The Delhi BJP has requested the Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi authorities to rename 40 villages with “Mughal era names” after freedom fighters, artistes, and “martyrs” together with Ankit Sharma and Ratan Lal who had been killed in communal riots within the metropolis in February 2020.
Delhi Police officer Mohan Chandra Sharma, who was killed in Batla House encounter, and Kargil War hero Captain Vikram Batra, had been additionally advised within the listing of names proposed by it. Ankit Sharma, an IB staffer, and Delhi Police head constable Ratan Lal had been killed throughout riots in North East Delhi in 2020.
Names of Maharshi Valmiki, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammad Rafi, cricketer Yashpal Sharma, and Milkha Singh had been additionally proposed to rechristen these villages.
“People want to know about such personalities. We are sending a proposal to name the villages after them. People want the Mughal era names to be changed,” Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta mentioned. There are 40 villages which have names “associated with the Mughals” and “symbolise the slave mentality”, he mentioned.
“The 40 villages have names like Jia Sarai, Zamroodpur, Masoodpur, Jafarpur Kalan, Tajpur, Najafgarh, Neb Sarai. Delhi is not a Sarai (inn). It is the nationwide capital of the nation.
“The villagers, including youths, do not want their villages to be identified with any symbol of slavery. They want to know who was Captain Vikram Batra, Bismillah Khan, Ashfaqullah, and Mohan Chandra Sharma who was martyred in Batla House encounter,” Gupta mentioned.
At a time when the entire nation is celebrating the seventy fifth anniversary of independence, the villagers don’t need to be related to such names and so they have approached us, he claimed.
“We demand Kejriwal that the names of these 40 villages be changed after the names of freedom fighters, brave hearts of armed forces who laid down their lives to safeguard the borders of the country, those who won laurels for the country in the fields of sports, art, music, and culture,” mentioned the Delhi BJP president.
Gupta on Wednesday had visited Muhammadpur in South Delhi the place the BJP with the native villagers “changed” the title of the village to Madhavpuram – despite the fact that neither has the authority to impact such adjustments.
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party had earlier mentioned that Delhi authorities’s ‘State Naming Authority’ appropriately critiques title change proposals it receives and acts following the due process.
“The villagers had determined to rename Muhammadpur which is a Mughal period title to Madhavpuram. A proposal to this impact was handed in South MCD. It was despatched to the Delhi authorities for approval however nothing occurred in final six months.
“So, the BJP decided to rename Muhammadpur as Madhavpuram with the consent of the local villagers who did not want to be associated with a symbol of slavery,” Gupta had earlier mentioned.
The Aam Aadmi Party, which governs the town, has charged that the BJP doesn’t need the federal government to perform as per the due course of and was searching for alternatives to begin hooliganism.
(With PTI inputs)
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