MP govt proposes Centre to rename city in CM’s constituency, Cong alleges communal agenda

By PTI

BHOPAL: After renaming a few locations in Madhya Pradesh within the latest previous, the state authorities is now planning to vary the identify of one other city – Nasrullaganj, which is situated in Budhni Assembly constituency of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

“A proposal to change the name of Nasrullaganj as Bherunda has been sent to the Centre,” Chouhan mentioned on Sunday whereas addressing a sports activities occasion within the city, situated practically 90 km from the state capital Bhopal.

While the opposition Congress accused the CM of pushing the communal agenda, the ruling BJP asserted that the state authorities was specializing in growth.

In February this yr, the MP authorities modified the identify of Hoshangabad district to Narmadapuram, and the identify of its Babai city to Makhan Nagar.

Babai is the birthplace of famend poet Makhanlal Chaturvedi.

In November final yr, Bhopal’s Habibganj railway station was renamed after tribal queen Rani Kamalapati.

Talking to PTI, MP Congress spokesman Okay Okay Mishra accused the chief minister of “pushing the communal agenda to disturb peace in the state”.

“When the pinnacle of the state is pushing communal sentiments, then how can peace be maintained? The CM ought to speak about growth, which has not occurred through the BJP regime within the state.

Nobody is aware of the place the state is heading within the competitors of fixing names of locations,” Mishra mentioned.

However, state BJP secretary Rajnish Agrawal informed PTI that the MP authorities has been constantly specializing in growth of the state.

“But, every village, town and city has its own identity and history of pride. The Congress is seeing communalism when the old and ancient name of a town is being restored because the opposition party has been doing politics of appeasement since Independence,” Agrawal mentioned.

He claimed that altering the identify of Nasrullaganj was an outdated demand of native residents.