The Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party demanded that Jinnah Nagar, the street in Palakkad, be renamed to Hittur Sankaran Nair, the only Malayali, who was the National President of the Indian National Congress.
Councilor BJP M. Sasikumar of Ayyapuram East Ward increased the demand in the village and quoted objections against the street called Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
The ruling BJP increased the demand against Jinnah Nagar as against the protest of the opposition congress and India Communist Party (Marxist) (CPI (M)) against the transfer of the municipality after the appointment of the upcoming Skill Development Center after Rashtriya Swayamsevaku Sangh (RSS) KB Hedgeware.
BJP put Congress in a complicated place by demanding renaming Jinnah Nagar from the former National President of Congress to be the only Indian member in the Executive Council of the British Viceroy.
Jinnah Nagar was a busy commercial street decades ago. BJP sources said that in 1977 the street was named in the city resolution that the street was named after Muhammadali Jinnah.
Published – April 30, 2025 20:29
