Congress‘s Rashid Alvi suggested that the Centre create new roads, gardens, etc., and give them whatever names it pleased, rather than renaming already-existing structures.
“The BJP government has a tendency of renaming cities, roads, and now even gardens. They view this as what constitutes development,” stated Alvi.
Congress’s Rashid Alvi slams renaming of Delhi’s Mughal Gardens
Meanwhile, political analyst George Kurian said that the BJP has failed in its priorities and the move was “nothing but an attempt to distract from real issues.”
BJP has failed on the priorities. The country is going through an economic turmoil and what needs to be given importance is the rising inflation, growing unemployment, rising fuel prices, women’s security. The BJP has to set straight their priorities in the national interest,” Kurian told Times Now.
“Changing names of places, monuments, stations, roads is not going to change the economic status. It’s nothing but distraction,” he added.
Meanwhile, several BJP leaders welcomed the decision of renaming of Mughal Gardens to ‘Amrit Udyan’ as “historic” with one saying it shows that India is coming out of slave mentality.
Rashtrapati Bhavan’s famed Mughal Gardens on Saturday was renamed ‘Amrit Udyan’.
The gardens will open for general public on January 31, 2023 and will remain open till March 26, 2023 (except on Mondays which are maintenance days and on March 8 on account of Holi). From March 28 to 31, the gardens will be open for special categories — for farmers on March 28, for differently abled on March 29, for personnel of defence forces, paramilitary forces and police on March 30, and for women, including tribal women’s self help groups, on March 31.