We can always give second name to our coalition INDIA but..: Rahul Gandhi on Bharat name controversy
Rahul Gandhi has hit out at the BJP during an interaction with students and academics in Paris, saying that the governing party is out to get power at any cost. When asked about the debate around the name of the country, Gandhi noted that both India and Bharat are documented in the Constitution and therefore, the government was acting in “strange ways" because they are “irritated" with the name of the Opposition’s Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A.). "There is something deeper that is going on, which is that people who want to change the name of anything are basically trying to deny history.
The fact of the matter is, whether we like it or we don't like it, we have a history. We were ruled by the British, we fought the British, we defeated the British… English is spoken by more Indians than English people; it's our own language more than theirs," he said. "Well...
the Constitution actually uses both names, right? The line in the Constitution, which I began with, is 'India, that is, Bharat, shall be a Union of States'. So I don't really see a problem... both are perfectly acceptable," Rahul Gandhi said in the video which was posted on social media platform X.
-"But, I think, maybe we irritated the government a little because we named our coalition INDIA and that got them all heated up. And now they've decided to change the name of the country," Rahul Gandhi further said in the video. "Embedded in that English is a huge history, lot of pain, lot of happiness, imagination, struggle, those things are embedded.
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