The Delhi BJP unit on Wednesday said they have changed name of south Delhi’s Mohammadpur village in south Delhi to Madhavpuram on their own because the Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi Government hadn’t acted on the South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s proposal in this regard since December.
The Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta also posed with workers and locals in front of a freshly painted board that welcomed visitors to 'Madhavpuram'. The development comes even as the ruling AAP has maintained that Delhi has a 'State Naming Authority' for all such matters, and if it receives any such proposals.
it will appropriately review them and move forward following the due procedure. "After a proposal was passed by the municipal corporation, the process of changing name to Madhavpuram is completed.
Now this village will be known as Madhavpuram instead of Muhammadpur. No Delhiites want to be associated with any symbol of slavery even after the 75 years of Independence," Gupta said in a tweet.
He said that the process of changing the name was taken forward by the locals and the BJP workers after a proposal by the local BJP councilor in this regard which was passed by the South Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The proposal to change name of 'Muhammadpur' to 'Madhavpuram' was passed and sent to the Delhi government in December last year. However, the government is sitting on it for the "last six months", Gupta alleged.
Last week, the Delhi BJP had also said the party will send a proposal to the Kejriwal government demanding that the names of 40 villages in the city be changed as they symbolise a period of "slavery".
"These 40 villages include Humayunpur, Yusuf Sarai, Masoodpur, Zamroodpur, Begumpur, Saidul Ajab, Fatehpur Beri, Hauz Khas, and Sheikh Sarai to name a few," he said.
The Aam Aadmi Party, however, charged that the BJP did not want the government to function as per due process and it was looking for opportunities to start hooliganism.