New Delhi: The Supreme Court has rejected Ashwini Upadhyay’s petition filed for renaming cities, streets, and roads named after foreign attackers. The petition by lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay demanded that the government set up a ‘Renaming Commission’. Those who find out the real names of our cultural, and historical heritage places and restore them. While rejecting the petition of Ashwini Upadhyay, the Supreme Court told very truthful things. The Supreme Court said that the present generation of a country cannot remain slaves of its past. The country has to move forward. Such issues are not good for the secular structure of the country.
The Supreme Court told BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay, who filed the petition, that India is a secular country. You are making today’s generation slaves of the past. You are pointing fingers at a particular community. You want to keep the barbaric deeds of Muslim attackers a live issue. The Supreme Court said that in this way you want to maintain the continuously boiling atmosphere in the country. The Supreme Court also said that history cannot be erased selectively. Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life. There is no fanaticism in Hinduism.
A bench of Justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna questioned the purpose of the PIL filed by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, saying that it would only revive those issues which would heat up the atmosphere in the country. While giving its verdict, the bench said that the history of the country should not be used to trouble it’s present and future generations. The past should not be dug up like this. This will only create animosity. Upadhyay also said in his petition that the Mughal Garden was recently renamed as Amrit Udyan. But the government did nothing to change the names of the roads named after the attackers.
