Reacting to the controversy over a G-20 dinner invite in the name of ‘President of Bharat’, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday questioned the need to “suddenly use only Bharat” while referring to India in official communiques.
“India is Bharat and Bharat is India,” the Trinamool Congress chairperson asserted. She said that there is now an attempt at changing the name of ‘India’ exclusively to ‘Bharat’.
“We all say Bharat, what is new in this. In English, we say India and the ‘Indian Constitution; in Hindi, we say ‘Bharat ka Samvidhan’. We all say ‘Bharat’, what is new in this. The world knows us as India. What happened suddenly that the name of the country needs to be changed?” the West Bengal Chief Minister said.
