Madhya Pradesh CM Renames 11 Villages with Muslim Names in Shajapur

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The renaming exercise has opened a Pandora’s box with BJP leaders demanding to change the names of more places 

Team Clarion

BHOPAL – Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has announced the change of Muslim-sounding names of 11 villages in Shajapur district.

Addressing a function in Kalapipal tehsil on Sunday, Yadav announced the new names of the villages. “Nipaniya Hissamuddin will be called Nipaniya Dev, Dhabla Hussainpur as Dhabla Ram, Mohammadpur Pawadia as Rampur Pawadia, Khajuri Allahadad as Khajuri Ram, Hajipur as Hirapur, Mohammadpur Machhnai as Mohanpur, Richhri Moradabad as Richhri, Khalilpur (Gram Panchayat Silonda) as Rampur, Unchod as Unchavad, Ghatti Mukhtiarpur as Ghatti and Sheikhpur Bongi as Avadhpuri,” Yadav said.

Earlier this month (on January 5), Yadav announced the renaming of three villages in his home district of Ujjain. The villages whose names have an ‘Islamic’ ring will now be known by their new Hindu-centric identities.

The BJP governments have changed the names of towns, cities, and railway stations which sound as Islamic or Muslim in some states. This time, the government in Madhya Pradesh has gone to the micro level and targeted villages to change their Muslim-sounding names.

Yadav, who was in Ujjain to inaugurate a school in Badnagar, informed that village Ghazni Khedi would be known as Chamunda Mata Nagri, village Maulana as Vikram Nagar and village Jehangirpuri as Jagdishpur. He even claimed the word Maulana sounded ‘very odd’.

The renaming exercise has opened a Pandora’s box with BJP leaders demanding to change the names of more places. Anil Firojiya, the BJP MP from Ujjain, wanted new names for Begum Bagh, Anda Gali and Top Khana localities in the city.

Demands have been coming from the BJP leaders of other cities and towns as well. In Bhopal, for instance, some BJP leaders have supported a name change to Bhojpal. They claim the name Bhopal was coined by the nawabs whereas the original name of the settlement was Bhojpal after Raja Bhoj of the Parmar royalty.

There have also been demands for changing the names of localities (Jehangirabad, Shahjehanabad), tehsil-level towns (Gauharganj, Noorganj, Sultanpur, Begumganj and Gairatganj) and villages such as Barkhedi, Pipaliya Zahir Peer, Mubarakpur, Umraoganj, Salamatpur, Shahbad and Alampur. It is being claimed that these settlements originally had Hindu names, whether or not there exists any supporting evidence.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the previous chief minister of the state, had renamed Nasrullahganj, a tehsil town in his constituency of Budhni, as Bhairunda in 2023. Ahead of the assembly elections that year, the Chouhan government had also renamed Habibganj railway station in Bhopal after Rani Kamlapati, the Gond queen who ruled the area around Bhopal in the 18th century.

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