Bhopal, Feb 2: The Madhya Pradesh government has proposed to change the name of Madhya Pradesh's capital Bhopal as Bhojpal in honour of Raja Bhoj, an 11th-century ruler. This came after the people present an event started to chant to change the name in the presence of CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Maharaj who was also present suggested doing the same.

 

CM Chouhan has said that he will also talk to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for this. He said, "I cannot do it alone, the proposal will be sent." After this reply of the Chief Minister, Rambhadracharya Maharaj assured the people that you should be relaxed, Bhopal will be changed 'Bhojpal'.

 

 

Jagadguru ji said that if Bhopal becomes 'Bhojpal' then the self-respect of Sanskrit will be protected.

 

Earlier, Madhya Pradesh medical education minister Vishwas Sarang on Friday demanded that the state capital Bhopal be rechristened as Bhojpal after the central government had given its approval to rename Hoshangabad district in the state as Narmadapuram.

 

"I have been demanding for long to change the name of Bhopal to Bhojpal. I have also raised this demand in the state assembly and now I will write a letter to the chief minister on the issue," Sarang said in a statement. Sarang said the idea behind changing names of some towns and villages is to delink them from their colonial past.