Plea for Renaming India as ‘Bharat’ can go to Centre as representation: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court recently ordered that a plea to change India’s name exclusively to ‘Bharat’ be converted into a representation and forwarded to the Union governmentfor an appropriate decision as Bharat and India are both names given in the Constitution.

Key Highlights

• The petition argued that ‘India’ is a name of foreign origin which can be traced back to the Greek term ‘Indica’. But the word ‘Bharat’ is closely associated to our Freedom Struggle as the cry was ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’.
• The petition soughtan amendment to Article 1 of the Constitution, which states that India, that is Bharat, shall be ....