Renaming India: BJP's new Bharat

BJP govt works to a plan. Even if its objectives sometimes fail, it does nothing without clear objectives. Opposition is not able to fathom that the Modi govt's actions have long-term goals as well

It would be a mistake to read the renaming of the nation during the G-20 summit and the Prime Minister's directive to ministers to attack critics of Sanatana Dharma as knee-jerk responses to the Opposition. They are organically linked to a raft of measures that further the strategic goals of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Both measures must be placed alongside the reading down of Article 370, removing Article 35A in the Constitution, and the proposed renaming of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) as Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Indian