“Happy To Agree With The Government” Tharoor’s Remark, Amid India-Bharat Controversy (image-www.instagram/shashitharoor)
Amidst the raging India vs Bharat controversy, seniour Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor has shared a post on platform X, stating an incident when the Centre told the Supreme court that there was no need to change the country”s name.
“Back in 2015, the BJP led Union government told the Supreme Court that the country does not have to be called Bharat instead of India,” as per the news report.
No comment. Happy to agree with the Government on this! pic.twitter.com/3bGbl3CbaA
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 5, 2023
Article 1.1 of the Constitution recognises ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’ as the official names of the country. It stated “India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States”.
India is buzzing out with the speculation of official name change in a special Parliament session as alleged by the opposition in the near future, and this has resulted in the spread of a massive rage.
“While there is no constitutional objection to calling India “Bharat”, which is one of the country’s two official names, I hope the government will not be so foolish as to completely dispense with “India”, which has incalculable brand value built up over centuries. We should continue to use both words rather than relinquish our claim to a name redolent of history, a name that is recognized around the world,” Tharoor has commented on an earlier post.
The Congress MP has claimed that it was Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah who had objected to the name “India” since it implied that our country was the successor state to the British Raj and Pakistan a seceding.
