BJP MLA demands renaming of places to ‘erase traces of Mughal era’

BJP MLA Gopichand Padalkar on Saturday, April 26, demanded the renaming of certain towns and villages in Maharashtra’s Sangli district “to erase the traces of the Mughal era”, and called for restoring the original names of these places.

Talking to reporters, he said he will soon write to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to



request that the name of Khanapur town be changed to Bhavanipur.

“Similarly, the names of Sultan Gade village and Umadi village in Jat taluka should be changed. Wherever there are Mughal-era traces, those names should be erased and earlier names should be restored,” said Padalkar, who represents the Jat constituency in Sangli.