Kozhikode
Bharatiya Janata Party State president K. Surendran, also the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, has waded into a controversy by declaring that, if elected, his first priority will be to change the name of Sulthan Bathery town in the district to Ganapathi Vattam.
The power to change the name of a city or a place rests with the respective State governments. The BJP leader first made this statement in an interview recently, where he claimed that he would seek the help of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre for the name change.
