Hyderabad is a secular name, so is Bhagyanagar communal? What is the logic behind the name change?

“He was an invader, he had no love for the soil of this country, for the culture and the people. People have been calling Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar for years. So why can’t Hyderabad be named Bhagyanagar?” This is to say of senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar. Earlier, UP CM Yogi Adityanath has also talked about renaming Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar in one of his meetings. BJP is preparing for the 2023 assembly elections in Telangana and is fueling the issue, while the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), which is in power in the state, says that BJP has no issue, hence it is renaming Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar. giving air to issues like

First let’s talk about TRS. Party spokesperson Krishank Manne said, “They have no agenda. If he had an agenda for Telangana or Hyderabad, he would have talked of development. He has done this in many places.” At the same time, in response to this, when the anchor asked Telangana BJP leader Rakesh Reddy, “Why Bhagyanagar? So in response he said, we want to rectify the mistakes made in history. The ancient name is Bhagyanagar, not Hyderabad. It is a matter of identity and self respect. India never invaded other countries, but India has been attacked and many invaders changed the names of our places. Congressmen did many things in the name of Gandhi family, but they forgot the names related to their culture. Just as Bombay was renamed as Mumbai, Calcutta was renamed Kolkata, so Hyderabad should also be named Bhagyanagar.

During the debate, Rekha Rao said that cultural, linguistic, emotional and identity are important here. There is a very ancient Bhagyalakshmi temple near the Char Minar in Hyderabad. It is from this name that Hyderabad was named Bhagyanagar. There is also the issue of regional identity. Along with this, history also has an important role in this. A very important question also came in the debate that before the name Hyderabad was there any name of that place? Ratan Sharda asked the question that which is the country that worships and respects the invaders? no where. Why does someone turn a church into a mosque after coming to power? Bakhtiyar Khilji attacked and destroyed Nalanda and we proudly take the name Bakhtiyarpur today. Is it not a shame that we worship the invaders?

Telangana BJP leader Rakesh Reddy argued that Hyderabad was not founded by Muslim invaders but Hyderabad already existed, which was renamed from Bhagyanagar to Hyderabad. In such a situation, the name of Hyderabad should be Bhagyanagar. Another interesting thing came up in this debate on this issue of name change. Referring to the two Muslim panelists involved in the debate, the anchor said that they are not invaders. On this Ratan Sharda argued that it is true that they are not invaders, but if the name of a place is changed from the name of the invaders then what is the problem?

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