Renaming of Rashtrapati Bhavan’s Mughal Garden to ‘Amrit Udyan’ miffs Congress leaders

Earlier within the day, information emerged that the enduring Mughal Gardens contained in the Rashtrapati Bhavan premises has been renamed ‘Amrit Udyan’. The backyard’s identify has been modified to Amrit Udyan on the event of celebrations of 75 years of Independence as ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.

The BJP administration’s choice immediately triggered sure members of the Congress get together, who went on to counsel that it’s a partisan transfer by the central authorities to divide society alongside non secular strains and sow seeds of hatred towards different communities.

Speaking to the media, senior Congress chief Rashid Alvi requested which different monument constructed by the British the BJP intends to rename or demolish subsequent. “Will they now demolish the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament, Lal Qila or Taj Mahal, which were built by the British?” the chief lambasted.

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Congress’s Rashid Alvi urged that the Centre create new roads, gardens, and so forth., and provides them no matter names it needs, relatively than renaming already-existing constructions.

“The BJP government has a tendency of renaming cities, roads, and now even gardens. They view this as what constitutes development,” said Alvi.

Alvi was not the one Congress chief who took umbrage on the transfer. INC’s George Kurian additionally weighed in on the BJP authorities’s choice to rename the Mughal Garden in Rashtrapati Bhavan. He said that the BJP has failed in its priorities and the transfer was “nothing but an attempt to distract from real issues.”

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The Centre renamed the Mughal Garden in Rashtrapati Bhavan to ‘Amrit Udyan’.

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The Cuddalore Congress Sevadal additionally took to Twitter to slam the transfer, “The only development of BJP is nothing other than naming other’s Child.. Mughal garden renamed.”

The solely improvement of BJP is nothing apart from naming different’s Child.. Mughal backyard renamed. pic.twitter.com/GuJh875Wkz

— Cuddalore Congress Sevadal (@SevadalCUD) January 28, 2023

Meanwhile, reacting strongly to Congress’s objection, BJP spokesperson Shehzaad Poonawala mentioned, “What we are experiencing is the shedding of colonial legacy and colonial symbols, whether its the renaming of Rajpath to Kartavya Path, whether it is getting rid of the statue of King George, whether it is getting rid of St. George’s cross from the Naval ensign and replacing it with Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj sign or whether it is renaming these past burdens with names that are more contemporary and that reflect Indian culture, Indian sentiments. I think that should be welcomed.”

Delhi’s Mughal Gardens renamed. Congress hits out.
Here’s what BJP spokesperson @Shehzad_Ind
mentioned.#MughalGardens #AmritUdyan #News @Akshita_N #ITVideo pic.twitter.com/FKBK7Fjtd9

— IndiaAt this time (@IndiaAt this time) January 28, 2023

“It’s very difficult to understand why Congress is opposed to every nationalist step. What problem it has with breaking away from the shackles of colonial mindset,” the BJP chief added.

Mughal Gardens in Rashtrapati Bhavan renamed ‘Amrit Udyan’

Earlier within the day OpIndia reported that the enduring Mughal Gardens contained in the Rashtrapati Bhavan premises has been renamed ‘Amrit Udyan’. The backyard’s identify has been modified on the event of celebrations of 75 years of Independence as ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.

Navika Gupta, Deputy Press Secretary to President, mentioned that the president of India has given a typical identify to the Rashtrapati Bhavan gardens as ‘Amrit Udyan’. The Deputy Press Secretary additional knowledgeable that the Amrit Udayan can be inaugurated by President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday, January 2.

It is notable that though referred to as Mughal Gardens, the backyard on Raisina Hill was not constructed by the Mughals, as the complete advanced was constructed by the British, lengthy after the autumn of the Mughal empire. However, as a result of the backyard was designed within the method of Mughal gardens constructed by Mughals in varied places all through the nation, it was given the generic identify Mughal Gardens.

It can be vital to notice that there are quite a few Mughal gardens within the nation, most of them on the premises of Mughal-built constructions just like the Taj Mahal, Humayun’s Tomb, Red Fort and so forth.