19 years ago in 2004, when BJP protested against the name ‘Bharat’, it is now against India.
19 साल पहले 2004 में जब ‘भारत’ नाम के खिलाफ थी भाजपा अब इंडिया का विरोध
In all the programs related to the G20 summit, President Draupadi Murmu sent invitation cards written as President of India instead of President India. After this BJP leaders and ministers started welcoming it. The message was sent across the country that Modi government wants to name the country only as India, it is against the word India. After this the letter from the Prime Minister of India also came out. On this the opposition started protesting against changing India in this way.
The opposition said that since the name of their alliance is India. That’s why the BJP and the central government are scared. But BJP and the central government kept terming this initiative as right. But it is this BJP which in 2004 opposed the proposal of the then Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in the UP Assembly, in which there was talk of changing the name of India to Bharat. The BJP staged a walkout from the UP Assembly as soon as it was proposed.
A Mint report states that in 2004, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s cabinet passed a resolution that the Constitution should be amended to read ‘Bharat, that is India’ instead of ‘India, that is India’. The then Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav again put this proposal in the state assembly, everyone except BJP accepted it. The BJP staged a walkout even before the resolution was passed.
After the papers and invitation letters of the President of India and the Prime Minister of India came to the fore, it is being speculated that in the special session of the Vidhan Sabha, a resolution can be brought to abolish India and name it only Bharat. The opposition is apprehensive that the Modi government may pass a resolution to change the name of the country in the session to be held from September 18 to 22. The opposition alleges that since the opposition alliance has changed its name to India, the central government is being irritated by it, so it wants to remove the word India.
After this, on August 3, 2004, Mulayam Singh Yadav brought a resolution in the assembly. It said that the Constitution should be amended to “Bharat, that is India” instead of “India, that is Bharat”. This proposal was passed unanimously in the house. However, the thing to be noted here is that earlier BJP MLAs had walked out of the House.
It has been reported at some places that the BJP had walked out on this ‘Bharat’ resolution. However, the old report of ‘Aaj’ newspaper shows that BJP had walked out on the issue of inclusion of Haridwar in Uttar Pradesh. This proposal was also brought on the same day.
Article 1 of the Constitution says, ‘India, that is Bharat, which shall be a Union of States.’ This means that Article-1 recognizes both ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’.
Mulayam Singh Yadav’s stand on this issue was inspired by the thoughts of socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia. Lohia used to oppose the imposition of English in the country. However, he did not talk about bringing Hindi instead. Rather, Lohia had advocated Indian languages instead of English. He believed that a small part of the population who has mastered English uses it for power or selfishness. According to Lohia, in every country of the world, all government or public work is done in the same language which the majority of people understand and know, but in our country it is exactly the opposite.
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