Now, Narendra Modi Addressed As PM Of Bharat At ASEAN-India Summit
The G20 summit invite from the President of Bharat triggered the speculation that India is getting renamed to Bharat. The Prime Minister is scheduled to visit Jakarta for a two-day visit on September 6-7 to attend the 20th ASEAN-India Summit.
The G20 summit invite from the President of Bharat that triggered the speculation that India is getting renamed to Bharat is not the only official document where it has found a mention.
Prime Minister of Bharat
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra on Tuesday night shared the official note regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Indonesia in which he has been referred to as the 'Prime Minister of Bharat'.
¡®The Prime Minister Of Bharat¡¯ pic.twitter.com/lHozUHSoC4
¡ª Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) September 5, 2023
The Prime Minister is scheduled to visit Jakarta for a two-day visit on September 6-7 to attend the 20th ASEAN-India Summit and the 18th East Asia Summit being hosted by Indonesia as the current Chair of ASEAN.
Prime Minister of Bharat attending ASEAN-India Summit
Meanwhile, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh pointed out that the Prime Minister of Bharat is still going to attend the ASEAN-India Summit.
"Look at how confused the Modi government is! The Prime Minister of Bharat at the 20th ASEAN-India summit. All this drama just because the Opposition got together and called itself INDIA," Ramesh said in a post on X.
Look at how confused the Modi government is! The Prime Minister of Bharat at the 20th ASEAN-India summit.
¡ª Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) September 5, 2023
All this drama just because the Opposition got together and called itself INDIA ???¡á? pic.twitter.com/AbT1Ax8wrO
Special session of the Parliament
It is not just the invite from President Murmu; even the identity cards of Indian officials at the G20 Summit on September 9 and 10 will also now say 'Bharat - Official'.
Ever since the G20 summit invite surfaced, coinciding with the announcement of a special session of the Parliament scheduled for later this month, rumours have spread that the government is planning to drop the India name and replace it with Bharat.
The opposition has accused the BJP of playing politics after their bloc for the upcoming general elections named themselves INDIA, which stands for - Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance.
Insult to Ambedkar
On Wednesday, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said that changing India's name to Bharat amounts to 'an insult' to the Constitution framed by Dr B R Ambedkar.
He said that the country's Constitution had incorporated both 'India' and 'Bharat' and nobody had any problems for all these years with the usage of India, "so who has given them the right to make the name change" now?
"The problems started a couple of months ago after the National Opposition parties united under the 'Indian National Democratic Inclusive Alliance' (INDIA) bloc that has shaken the BJP deeply," he alleged,
"The BJP is now scared even by the name of the country, INDIA which it has been using for so many of its own schemes. Then what happened suddenly to make this move, and how many more things you will change," Raut asked.
Congress to seek agenda of special session of Parliament
Amid the continuing speculation, Congress said Sonia Gandhi will write a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to know the agenda of the special session of Parliament.
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