Congress claimed the masthead of a G20 dinner invite from the president’s office described Droupadi Murmu as the “President of Bharat", instead of the usual “President of India”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to move a resolution renaming India as 'Bharat' at the five-day special session in Parliament starting September 18. "REPUBLIC OF BHARAT - happy and proud that our civilization is marching ahead boldly towards AMRIT KAAL,” tweeted Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma as reported by CNN-News18.
Meanwhile, the Congress claimed that the masthead of a dinner invite from the president’s office sent to G20 summit delegates described Droupadi Murmu as the “President of Bharat”, instead of the usual “President of India”. “Article 1 in the Constitution can read: ‘Bharat, that was India, shall be a Union of States’,” the party’s General Secretary Jairam Ramesh tweeted. “But now even this ‘Union of States’ is under assault.”
Defending the use of the name Bharat, top BJP leader JP Nadda asked why does the Congress party have “so much objection to every subject related to the honor and pride of the country?