{"id":305284,"date":"2018-11-08T05:15:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T05:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305284"},"modified":"2018-11-08T05:26:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T05:26:56","slug":"gujarat-government-ready-to-rename-ahmedabad-as-karnavati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gujarat-government-ready-to-rename-ahmedabad-as-karnavati\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat government ready to rename Ahmedabad as \u2018Karnavati\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/gujarat-government-ready-to-rename-ahmedabad-as-karnavati\/ahmedabad-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305290\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305290 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ahmedabad-1-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/ahmedabad-1-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/ahmedabad-1-509x420.jpg 509w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/ahmedabad-1.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a>Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat Nitin Patel had said that his government is considering renaming Ahmedabad as &#8216;Karnavati&#8217; if the\u00a0Bharatiya Janata Party\u00a0(BJP) manages to get enough support from the people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nitin Patel&#8217;s comment came a day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath renamed Faizabad district as Ayodhya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said that people of Ahmedabad like the name Karnavati. \u201cWhenever time is appropriate, we will change it,&#8221; said Patel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Patel also welcomed the Uttar Pradesh government&#8217;s decision to rename the cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the opposition, Congress hit out at the government&#8217;s move, calling it another \u201cpoll gimmick\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahmedabad is located on the banks of the river Sabarmati, 30km from the state capital Gandhinagar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0Uttar Pradesh government\u00a0had recently changed the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the year the Mughalsarai Railway Station was also renamed as Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Junction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat Nitin Patel had said that his government is considering renaming Ahmedabad as &#8216;Karnavati&#8217; if the\u00a0Bharatiya Janata Party\u00a0(BJP) manages to get enough support from the people. Nitin Patel&#8217;s comment came a day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath renamed Faizabad district as Ayodhya. He further said that people of Ahmedabad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,2014,2026],"tags":[242,9575,9574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305291,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305284\/revisions\/305291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}