India-Bharat name row: He said that first the Persians and then the Greeks’ inability to say the word eventually led to the word India. He also said that the term Bharat does not refer to the entire country but a specific region in the Northern part of the country.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor sarcastically suggests that the opposition bloc could call itself the ‘Alliance for Betterment, Harmony And Responsible Advancement for Tomorrow (BHARAT)’ in response to the India-Bharat naming controversy.
Opposition and BJP clash over renaming India as Bharat, while the same BJP had staged a walk out of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly in 2004 over renaming India as Bharat.
President Droupadi Murmu s G20 invite has triggered controversy by using President of Bharat instead of ‘President of India’. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma defended the use of Bharat and called for the renaming of the Reserve Bank of India as the Reserve Bank of Bharat.