New Delhi, May 10, 2022 (PPI-OT):The Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded of the authorities that the names of five roads that bear the names of Mughal era be changed. Adesh Gupta, the chief of Delhi BJP unit, at a press conference in the Indian capital, today, asked the civic body to rename Tughlaq Road, Akbar Road, Aurangzeb Lane, Humayun Road, Shahjahan Road and Babar Lane.

Gupta suggested that the roads should be named after Sikh preacher Guru Gobind Singh, Hindu ruler Maharana Pratap, former President APJ Abdul Kalam, Sanskrit poet Valmiki, former Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and Hindu freedom activist, Khudiram Bose.

Last month, Gupta had sent a list of 40 villages in Delhi with “Mughal-era names” to the Aam Aadmi Party government, urging that they be renamed after prominent Hindu personalities and artists. Meanwhile, members of several Hindutva organisations held a demonstration, today, near Delhi’s Qutub Minar, demanding that the minaret be renamed “Vishnu Stambh” after the Hindu deity, Indian media reported.

Around 1 pm, soon after the demonstrations started, the police detained the protestors who shouted “Jai Shri Ram” while holding saffron flags. BJP leader Jai Bhagwan Goyal said that they had given a call for singing the Hanuman Chalisa, Hindu religious song, at the Qutub Minar, demanding that it be declared as Vishnu Stambh.

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