Gurugram: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fifth time period comes, India will take again Pakistan and Bangladesh to make it Akhand Bharat, a Haryana BJP MLA has stated, searching for to justify his demand for altering the identify of Hisar to Agrodak after Maharaja Agrasen — a legendary king of Agroha, a metropolis of merchants.
The remark by Dr Kamal Gupta — who was Haryana’s Urban Local Bodies minister in former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s cupboard — at a public assembly final week triggered an argument in his residence constituency.
At the assembly, Gupta stated he had despatched a proposal to the state authorities to vary the identify of Hisar to Agrodak. This is the traditional identify of Agroha, a city in Hisar district related to the legend of Agrasen.
Addressing the folks in Hisar, Gupta stated Hisar was part of Agroha, and never the opposite approach spherical “The name Hisar was given to this place by Firoz Shah Tughlaq, who named it Hisar-e-Firoza in 1354” he stated on 11 March.
Gupta added that folks weren’t sure by the identify given to their metropolis by Tughlaq.
“Hisar is an Arabic word meaning a fort or a castle. Hisar-e-Firoza means Tughlaq’s forte. Why shall we accept this name? Now, our country is independent. Now, our country is powerful. We have built the Ram Mandir; we have abrogated Article 370. We will take back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, we will take back CoK (China-occupied Kashmir), and when the fifth term of Modiji comes, we will take back Pakistan and Bangladesh and make an Akhand Bharat. Under such circumstances, why should we accept Hisar-e-Firoza as the name of our city?” he requested.
“We have sent a proposal to the government to keep this place’s name as Agrodak instead of Hisar because Agrodak was the capital of Maharaja Agrasen’s kingdom and Agroha is just a corrupted name of Agrodak,” Gupta, a surgeon by coaching, stated in his speech.
However, in keeping with senior Congress chief and six-time MLA Sampat Singh, Hisar is a historic city identified globally by this identify, therefore, the identify shouldn’t be modified.
“When I was a minister in Haryana, I contributed a lot towards the development of Agroha and the Maharaja Agrasen Medical College there. I think we should work to develop some more educational institutions named after the Maharaja, but we should not tinker with the name of Hisar because it’s a very old and historical city and is known globally by this name,” stated Singh, who has been residing in Hisar for over 5 many years.
Echoing Singh, Rajender Chutani, president of the New Rajguru Market Association and Bishnoi Market Association, additionally believed that the identify shouldn’t be modified.
“Our association will not allow the government to change the name of Hisar at any cost,” he asserted, including that the market associations will launch an agitation if any try is made to vary the identify.
“Dr Kamal Gupta should have spoken to the people of Hisar before sending any such proposal. He contested elections from Hisar in 1996 and 2000 and lost badly. Now, he has won the elections in 2014 and 2019 riding on the Modi wave, but by trying to change the name of Hisar, he is working against the very people who elected him,” Chutani informed ThePrint.
According to Mukesh Sethi, former chairman of Hisar Improvement Trust — such trusts are statutory our bodies arrange for the advance and enlargement of cities that had been later merged into municipal our bodies by the state authorities in 2014 — a big majority of individuals in Hisar had been towards the transfer, and if Gupta continues along with his plans, the transfer will face a significant backlash.
“Hisar is a city where you have one of the best agricultural universities in Asia, which is known by Hisar. Two more state universities, an Army cantonment and a couple of central institutes under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) are all known by Hisar. It would not be a wise step to change the name of the city now,” stated Sethi.
Yashvir Malik, who lives in Hisar, is president of the Confederation of Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran Sector. (These are confederations of resident welfare associations (RWAs) of sectors developed by Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran, the state’s city planning company.) Malik informed ThePrint that the RWAs of virtually all sectors below his confederation wrote to the federal government towards this transfer final week.
“Changing names of cities doesn’t help anyone’s cause. We are against this move as it will only create confusion,” Malik added.
ThePrint reached Gupta over the phone however he didn’t reply. This report can be up to date as soon as a response is acquired.
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Several names modified up to now 8 years
In the previous eight years, Haryana has seen a major variety of its cities and villages endure identify adjustments below the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led authorities.
The renaming has been pushed by numerous components, together with native folks’s calls for to vary names whose connotations they objected to, corresponding to Ganda (soiled) in Fatehabad district, Kinnar (transgender) in Hisar, and Kutia Kheri (kutia is a slur referencing feminine canine) in Hisar.
Additionally, many locations have been renamed to maneuver away from Urdu or Muslim-associated names.
A notable change occurred on April 12, 2016, when Gurgaon, often known as Millennium City, was formally renamed Gurugram. The authorities had then stated that the change was to pay homage to Guru Dronacharya — the instructor of the Kauravas and the Pandavas within the epic Mahabharata.
Furthermore, Mewat district was rechristened Nuh district.
Other important renamings embody Mustafabad in Yamunanagar turning into Saraswati Nagar, and Sanghar Sarishta in Sirsa being renamed to Baba Bhuman Shah, in honour of the Kamboj neighborhood’s religious chief.
A sequence of different adjustments in names throughout the state embody — Ganda in Fatehabad to Ajit Nagar, Kinnar in Hisar to Gaibi Nagar, Cham Dhera in Mahendragarh to Dev Nagar, Garhi Sampla in Rohtak to Chaudhary Chhotu Ram Nagar and Pindari in Jind to Pandu Pindara.
The identify of Todi Kheri in Jind was modified to Sarna Kheri, Khizrabad in Yamunanagar to Pratap Nagar, Lula Ahir in Rewari to Krishna Nagar, Balrangran in Karnal to Bal Rajputana, Kutia Kheri in Hisar to Veerpur, Landhora in Karnal to Jairampur, Amin in Kurukshetra to Abhimanyupur, Gainda Khera in Jind to Gurukul Khera and Mohammad Heri in Gurugram to Brahmpuri.
(Edited by Richa Mishra)
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