“PM said Hyderabad is Bhagyanagar, which is important for all of us. It was in Bhagyanagar that freedom fighter Sardar Patel laid the foundation of a unified India and coined the word ‘One India’. And now it is the responsibility of the BJP to do that. Carry it forward. Legacy ahead,” BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad said quoting Modi here.
BJP national general secretary (organisation) BL Santosh intensified the name change discussion with a tweet: Here in Bhagyanagar, Sardar Patel gave us an India. Today the entire BJP national team has gathered under the leadership of JP Nadda to make our country ‘Shreshtha Bharat’.” When asked whether Hyderabad would be renamed as Bhagyanagar, Federation Minister Piyush Goyal said, “When the BJP comes to power in Telangana, the CM will take a decision along with his cabinet colleagues.”
Though BJP members have been demanding a change in the name of Hyderabad, the issue gained momentum during the 2020 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections when Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath urged citizens to “change Hyderabad into Bhagyanagar”. urged to vote.
watch PM Modi told Hyderabad ‘Bhagyanagar’, the discussion of changing the name started