Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national vice president and former chief minister Dr Raman Singh on Thursday termed the re-naming of the lone university for mass media, the Kushabhau Thakre University of Journalism and Mass Communication by the state government, as a disgraceful political decision.
Singh said the Congress has set a wrong precedent by taking such a decision.
The former CM said the Congress even after more than 15 months in government, has not come out of its vindictive political mentality and has been working on an agenda of changing the names of institutions and schemes.
“Such a decision is unexpected and painful,” Singh said.
He further said that a true political ideology is not that of tampering with names.
“The contributions of leading personalities of the state like Pandit Mahdavrao Sapre and former MP Chandulal Chandrakar in the country’s freedom struggle, is incomparable.
“Had the state government wants to give due respect to both the great personalities, then it could have been better if the new institutions were named after them,” Singh said.
But by changing the name of the journalism university, the state government has given a wrong signal among the education sector and setting a wrong precedent, he added.
The former CM said the founder of the state, late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had laid the foundation of the institution, the identity of which is being altered and it reflects the political immaturity.