Congress in MP on the path of BJP, demand to change the names of villages etc

Bhopal: The BJP government is running a campaign to change the names of cities and institutions across the country including Madhya Pradesh. Other parties are also constantly making an issue out of this. After so many years, now Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party are also seen coming on the path of BJP. Actually, Congress and BSP have demanded to change the names of villages, mohallas, hamlets, tolas and schools addressed by names. Along with this, the government has been asked to change the names of such caste-indicating places by conducting an immediate survey. Both the parties have written a letter to Governor Mangu Bhai Patel regarding this. In a letter written by Congress to the Governor, it has been written that the Madhya Pradesh government has been continuously insisting on changing the names of institutions due to communal and linguistic prejudices for the last 20 years, but unfortunately thousands of villages, hamlets, schools have been named with caste-indicating words, which creates a feeling of high and low, best-worst in the society and people feel ashamed to tell their settlement.

For example, in Tikamgarh district, there are thousands of such villages like UEGS Loharpura, UEGS Dhimrola, UEGS Dhimaryana, UEGS Chamrola, Chamrola Khilak, Bajariapura, Chadhrayana etc., which are located in every district. It is further written in the letter that because of the name, these settlements are looked down upon and become victims of social discrimination. I request you that along with changing the names of villages, districts, hamlets on the basis of communal thinking, the government should start changing the names of these villages which are a hindrance to social harmony. On behalf of the Congress Party’s Ideology Department, I demand that this will prove to be the foundation stone towards establishing a society free of social justice, equality and discrimination.

Meanwhile, BSP leader Awadhesh Pratap Singh Rathore has sent a letter to Governor Mangu Bhai Patel through e-mail. Rathore has demanded that the names of many villages, settlements and schools are caste-indicative. In such a situation, their names should be changed. There are more than 5 thousand such names in the whole of Madhya Pradesh which are caste-indicative. Congress leaders say that there is no harm in changing the names of those words which give a sense of inequality. When you are changing the names of stations and villages on the basis of community and language, then the names of such villages should be changed first. He said that BJP claims a lot that we do not believe in caste. Why do they not pay attention to this? This is a difference in thinking. BJP should tell whether it wants to continue the names of these caste-indicating villages, towns, hamlets, tolas. From where there is a sense of untouchability, inequality, high and low.

Examples of these names were given

1. Government Primary School (UEGS) Hajjampura Block Phanda, District Bhopal.
2. Government Primary School Dhimraura, Jikhangaon, Block Niwari, District Niwari.
3. Government Primary School Gadaryana, Tatarpura, Block Prithvipur, District Niwari.
4. Government Primary School, Kachhipura, Binwara, District Niwari.
5. UEGS Chamraula, Banjaripura, Block Prithvipur, District Niwari.
6. Dhobikheda, Tehsil Nateran District Vidisha.