Recently, there was much controversy over the name of PM Narendra Modi on the name of the Motera Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Meanwhile, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray has dug into naming the stadium after Prime Minister Narendra Modi. CM Uddhav Thackeray in the Maharashtra Assembly said, “Now we will not lose any cricket match because the Motera stadium has been renamed Narendra Modi Stadium. We have named the international airport hat Tripathi Shivaji Maharaj. . ”
The stadium name (Motera) has been changed to Narendra Modi Stadium so we will not lose any cricket match. We have renamed Hat Tripathi Shivaji Maharaj to Intel Airport but he changed the name of Sardar Patel Stadium. We don’t need to learn Hindutva from you: Maharashtra CM in assembly pic.twitter.com/ckP14r3Ulq
– ANI (@ANI) March 3, 2021
Let us tell you that President Ramanath Kovind inaugurated this stadium in Ahmedabad in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The stadium is named after PM Narendra Modi. Sports Minister Kiran Rijiju was present on the occasion. After the inauguration, Amit Shah said he had decided to name the Prime Minister of the country as it was Modiji’s dream project.
Even at the inauguration of the stadium, many political parties, including the Congress, had created a lot of resentment over the name change. At the time, many BJP leaders had reacted to the name change in their own way.
Meanwhile, Nitin Patel, deputy prime minister in the Gujarat government, has said that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s name has never been attached to the stadium. According to a video posted by PIB, Nitin Patel said, “The stadium is owned by the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) and has always been called the Motera Stadium. So now there is no question of renamed it. Thinking. “
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