row in wb over change in name of kolkata road
Kolkata, June 22 -- The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to rename the city's Suhrawardy Avenue after Gopal Mukherjee, who took up arms to protect Hindus during the 1947 communal riots. CM Suvendu Adhikari hailed the move, saying, "For decades, a major artery of our city bore the name of someone who wilfully misused state power as a weapon, orchestrating the massacre of innocent citizens."
Opposition leaders, however, slammed the move, saying the road was named after Sir Hassan Suhrawardy, the first Muslim vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, and not after his relative Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, who was the prime minister of the undivided Bengal province in 1947, and accused of engineering riots targeting Hindus.P6...
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