Bharat vs India debate: Even ex-PM Indira Gandhi took oath as 'Bharat ka Pradhan Mantri', says Himanta Biswa Sarma
Indira Gandhi took oath as Bharat ka Pradhan Mantri.
Sarma was one of the first to change his bio in X(formerly twitter) to Bharat after the opposition alliance rechristened themselves as INDIA.
Talking to mediapeson in Guwahati he said, “Indira Gandhi took the oath as 'Bharat ka Pradhan Mantri', not as the Prime Minister of India. “ Recently Union Home minister Amit Shah in parliament placed Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Then nobody opposed it. Bharat and India are interchangeable and that is the decision of the Supreme Court in 2016.”
He said, “when Manmohan Sing took oath, he took the oath as Bharat ka Pradhan Mantri.
When Deve Gowda ji took the oath, he took it as the Prime Minister of India, as far as I remember.”
Sarma advocated to replace ‘Bharat’ with ‘India’ in institutions like the Reserve Bank of India.
He claimed that the word ‘India’ and ‘colonial legacies ’ and that the country is entering a ‘phase of renaissance’ during which these will be done away with. Sarma said, “The name of the central bank should be ‘Reserve Bank of Bharat’.
He said, “People have waited for 75 years for one Modi to come and root out this colonial hangover."
