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In 2023, the ruling party in India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been trying to change India's name to Bharat. The BJP says the name "India" is a sign of colonial rule and is not a local name for the country. Bharat and India are both official names of the country. The BJP argues that the ...
In Hindi, the constitution replaces India with Bharat everywhere, except the part defining the country’s names, which says in Hindi, “Bharat, that is India, shall be a Union of States.”
As Modi declared the summit in New Delhi open on Saturday, he sat behind a table nameplate that read "Bharat", while the G20 logo had both names - "Bharat" written in Hindi and "India" in English ...
The country's constitution references both names: India to be used for statements in English and Bharat to be used in Hindi. The country is also called Hindustan, which many right-wing Hindu ...
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Anti-Muslim riots occurred in the Indian state of Gujarat in 2002. [7] Over one thousand people were killed, most of them Muslim, and 150,000 people were displaced. [8] The riots followed the deaths of Hindu pilgrims on a train in Godhra, [8] for which the state's Muslim minority was blamed. [9]
When Indian prime minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Group of 20 (G20) leaders’ summit on Saturday, he sat behind a country name placard that piqued the interest of many.
Tukde Tukde Gang is a pejorative political catchphrase used in Indian political media for groups allegedly supporting sedition and secessionism. [1] Whereas the words tukde-tukde refer to "breaking or cutting something into small fragments", [2] the phrase "tukde tukde gang" can be translated as "a gang that wants to divide the country".