BJP’s Rajya sabha MP Naresh Bansal on Friday, July 28, demanded that the word ‘India’ should be removed from the Constitution as ‘it reminded of the colonial past’.
He was speaking during the Monsoon Session of the parliament. According to him, the country’s real name is ‘Bharat’.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently compared the Opposition alliance’s new name to terror outfits such as the ‘Indian Mujahideen’, the banned PFI.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma chose to remove the word India from his Twitter bio and replaced it with Bharat.
