Amid huge uproar over NCERT recommendation of replacing 'India' with 'Bharat', West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu termed the decision as 'ridiculous' and 'bizarre' and called it a political decision.
Amid the coming Lok Sabha elections in the country in 2024, Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Abdul Khaleque has said that if Bharatiya Janata Party wins 99 seats in the coming elections, it will be better for them.
Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Digvijay Singh has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is politicizing the India-Bharat matter because they want to divert the attention from big issues like inflation and unemployment.
Congress leader Pawan Khera on Thursday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trying to create a conflict between Bharat and India adding that the people of India are aware of this fact and have identified these faces.
"This debate (Bharat-India name row) has been raked up to divert the attention of those G20 dignitaries who're coming to India, from the real issues. Whatever you call this nation, the real issues of the nation will stay the same. They (BJP) failed to solve these issues in the past nine year
In a jibe at the ruling Congress amid the India vs. Bharat row, the BJP's Rajasthan president, CP Joshi, on Wednesday, asked the party to come clean on "who divided India the position of Prime Minister in 1947".
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose on Wednesday speaking about media reports that the Central government is mulling to replace the word India with Bharat in the Constitution, said that the controversy around it is a non-issue.
Amid the ongoing controversy around the word "Bharat" in President Droupadi Murmu's formal invite to foreign leaders to a G20 dinner, sparking buzz of the country's name change, the title of Akshay Kumar's new film 'Mission Raniganj: The Great Indian Rescue' has been changed to 'Mission R
Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) leader Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said, "How many names will you change? Will you change the names of the State Bank of India, IIT, and IIM?"