India, June 22 -- West Bengal has witnessed a series of controversies since the formation of the new government, and a fresh political row has now erupted over the renaming of a prominent Kolkata road.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) recently renamed Suhrawardy Avenue as Gopal Mukherjee Road. The move was welcomed by West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, who described it as a "historic" decision that corrected a longstanding wrong.

In a post on X, Adhikari said the road had been named after a person who had "wilfully misused state power as a weapon" and was responsible for the massacre of innocent citizens for political gain. However, opposition leaders accused the government of acting on incorrect historical information....