West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of attempting to “distort history”.
Earlier, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh, in a tweet, said, “So the news is indeed true. Rashtrapati Bhawan has sent out an invite for a G20 dinner on Sept 9th in the name of ‘President of Bharat’ instead of the usual ‘President of India’.”
“Now, Article 1 in the Constitution can read: Bharat, that was India, shall be a Union of States. But now even this ‘Union of States’ is under assault.”
“Mr Modi can continue to distort history and divide India, that is Bharat, that is a Union of States. But we will not be deterred. After all, what is the objective of INDIA parties? It is BHARAT — Bring Harmony, Amity, Reconciliation And Trust. Judega BHARAT, Jeetega INDIA!” Ramesh said.
AICC general secretary K C Venugopal accused the BJP of seeking to “divide people”. “The BJP’s destructive mind can only think of how to divide people. Once again, they are creating a rift between Indians and Bharatiyas. Let’s be clear – we are the same! As Article 1 says – India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States. This is petty politics because they are scared of INDIA. Try what you will, Modi ji. Judega Bharat, Jeetega INDIA,” he said.
CWC member and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor said, “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 recognised around the world.”
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel of the Congress said, “I got the invitation from the President. Earlier, invitations used to read the President of India. Today, the letter says President of Bharat. This means they have so much trouble with the word India! It is written in the Constitution. It starts from there.”
“This country is called Bharat, Bharatvarsh. It’s also called India. It is known by multiple names. Now you have an objection to the name. Our alliance is named INDIA, so now they have a problem with the name. Tomorrow if there is an alliance with the name BHARAT will you change that too?” Baghel said.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah told reporters in Bengaluru, “In our Constitution, it (India) is incorporated and it is called the Constitution of India. India is an accepted word for our country. Making it Bharat, I don’t think it is required.”
DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, in a tweet, said, “After non-BJP forces united to dethrone the fascist BJP regime and aptly named their alliance #INDIA, now the BJP wants to change ‘India’ for ‘Bharat’. BJP promised to TRANSFORM India, but all we got is a name change after 9 years! Seems like the BJP is rattled by a single term called India because they recognise the strength of unity within the opposition. During the elections, ‘India’ will chase BJP out of power!”
At a Teacher’s Day function in Kolkata, Banerjee said, “I have heard that in the invitation card for the G20 Summit dinner, it is mentioned Bharat in English. We say India and the Indian Constitution and in Hindi, we say ‘Bharat ka Samvidhan’. We all say ‘Bharat’. What is new in this? But the name India is known to the world. What happened that they suddenly had to change the name of the country? Any day, we will see them (BJP) change the name of Rabindranath Tagore also. History is being rewritten in the country.”
“This is nothing but the Central government’s blatant attempt to distort the history of the country. They are changing the name of historical monuments. They are changing history. The country cannot run like this,” she said.
AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, “I have not read or received any official information but heard from here and there that BJP wants to rename India as Bharat. The country is of 140 crore people, it does not belong to any one party. Just because some parties came together and formed an alliance and named it INDIA, you want to rename the country? Let’s say, that if the INDIA alliance holds a meeting and decides to rename it to Bharat, will they change the name again? Will they then name Bharat as BJP… The country belongs to 140 crore people, this is not a joke.”
“This is our country, brother. It is thousands of years old and has a rich history, Sanskriti, tradition and you just want to rename it because the alliance has named itself INDIA,” he said. “You fear you will lose a few seats (in the Lok Sabha polls) because of the formation of the alliance, so you change the name of the country. This is a betrayal,” he said.
Former Jammu and Kashmir CM and PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti, in a tweet, said, “BJP’s aversion to India’s foundational principle of unity in diversity has touched a new low. By reducing India’s many names from Hindustan & India to now only Bharat shows its pettiness & intolerance. For the first time in India’s post-Independence history, a party with a brute majority is treating the entire country as its fiefdom.”
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