SC hearing today on the demand to remove the word 'India' from the Constitution and make it 'Bharat'

New delhi date. 02 June 2020, Tuesday

The Supreme Court today will hear a petition seeking the use of the word "India" instead of "India" in the Constitution. The petition states that the first article of the Constitution states that India means India. The question is, when a country is one, why do it have two names? Why isn't the same name used?

The country's Supreme Court will hear the case today. The petitioner says that the word India conveys the feeling of slavery and this is a sign of slavery in India. That is why the word Bharat or Hindustan should be used instead.

The petition claims that the word 'Bharat' or 'Hindustan' evokes a sense of pride in our nationality. The petition urges the government to take appropriate steps to amend Article 1, removing the word 'India' and calling the country 'Bharat' or 'Hindustan'. This article relates to the name of the Republic.

The petition was filed by a resident of Delhi and claimed that the amendment would liberate the citizens of the country from the past. The petition, based on a discussion on Article 1 of the draft constitution in the Constituent Assembly in 1948, states that the country was advocated for naming it 'Bharat' or 'Hindustan' at that time.

According to the petition, changing this English name may seem symbolic, but changing it to the word India would justify the freedom struggle of our ancestors. "This is the right time for the country to be known by its original and honest name 'Bharat'," the petition said.