Kolkata, June 22 -- The Kolkata Municipal Corporation's (KMC) decision to rename the city's Suhrawardy Avenue after Gopal Mukherjee, who took up arms to protect Hindus during the 1947 communal riots, triggered a row in Bengal on Sunday, with the move evoking strong criticism from the opposition leaders and academicians. "Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided that the road known as Suhrawardy Avenue in KMC area will be named and henceforth be known as Gopal Mukherjee Road," said the one-line order KMC administrator and municipal commissioner Smita Pandey signed on June 20. CM Suvendu Adhikari welcomed the decision. "...Suhrawardy Avenue will now be renamed as Gopal Mukherjee Road. For decades, a major artery of our city bore the name of ...