On 18th September, the five-day special meeting is about to take place in the Parliament, which looks forward to the chance of a big decision from the government. Another estimate after UCC and ‘One-Nation, One Election’ is revolving, which focuses through a constitutional amendment under Article 368 in changing our country’s name from ‘India’ to ‘Bharat’ officially.
After a debate in the parliament assembly, some of them told their opinion of retaining the nation’s name as India while other members wanted to change the name as ‘Bharat’. However, according to our Indian Constitution as per Article 1, Our country ‘India, that is Bharat’ is mentioned as a ‘Union of States’.
In 2022, PM Modi in his Independence Day speech said to the people of India to pledge something including the removal of the signs of slavery. Many times, the Modi administered government has announced that they will learn towards the ‘Bharat’ name. The change of our nation’s name from ‘India’ to ‘Bharat’ will be a sign of our country’s move towards our country’s culture and identity.
These gossips around the anticipation were started by two Major incidents – one is the latest post on X formerly known as Twitter by Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Chief minister of Assam saying ” REPUBLIC OF BHARAT – happy and proud that our civilization is marching ahead boldly towards AMRIT KAAL”. And the second, that is the formal dinner invitation to the G20 Summit from the president’s residence that is the Rashtrapati Bhawan refers to the President instead of ‘President of India’ but as ‘President of Bharat’.
Jairam Ramesh, the Congress leader responded at the dinner regarding this and stated that the news of the country’s name change must be true. He also pointed out that the Rashtrapati Bhawan has invited them on Sept 9th for the G20 dinner in the name of ‘President of Bharat’ but not as usually the ‘President of India’, so this news of the nation’s name might be true. Earlier, Article 1 of our Indian Constitution reads : ” Bharat, that is India, will be a Union of States.” But at present even “Union of States’ smacks, he added.
People like Mohan Bhagwat, the Chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has shown his support for the idea of the nation’s name change when the demand for the same was raised many times. It is likely that this move will be described as an attempt to distance itself from the colonial legacy.
Remarkably, the move might occur at a time when the 28-member Opposition coalition, known as the Indian National Democratic Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), is preparing to run as a single candidate in the Lok Sabha elections of 2024. There could be a new round of hostilities between the administration and opposition as a result of the development.
