Port Blair to be renamed Sri Vijaya Puram
The decision was inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s desire ‘to free the nation from the colonial imprints’, Union minister Amit Shah said.
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Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, will be renamed as Sri Vijaya Puram, Union home minister Amit Shah announced on Friday.
Shah said that the decision was inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s desire “to free the nation from the colonial imprints”.
“While the earlier name had a colonial legacy, Sri Vijaya Puram symbolises the victory achieved in our freedom struggle and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ unique role in the same,” the Bharatiya Janata Party leader said in a social media post.
“Andaman and Nicobar Islands have an unparalleled place in our freedom struggle and history,” Shah added. “The island territory that once served as the naval base of the Chola Empire is today poised to be the critical base for our strategic and development aspirations.”
“It is also the place that hosted the first unfurling of our Tiranga by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose ji and also the cellular jail in which Veer Savarkar Ji and other freedom fighters struggled for an independent nation,” Shah said.
In December 2018, the Modi government had renamed three islands in the Andaman and Nicobar Union territory as a tribute to freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose. Ross Island, Neil Island and Havelock Island were renamed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Island, Shaheed...
