Tag: Bharat instead of India

A G20 dinner invitation for September 9 from the President’s office sparked off a political slugfest on Tuesday over sudden change in Droupadi Murmu’s description as “The President of Bharat” . Usually, opposition parties contended, the country’s highest office is addressed as “President of India”. The use of “Bharat” instead of “India” as the country’s name in communication further fuelled speculation over scrapping of the name of the country from India, to make it only Bharat. There was discussion across the social media that it would entail amending...