The Opposition parties, including Congress and AAP on Tuesday said that the BJP was scared of the new INDIA alliance and maybe this was the reason the Centre was considering changing the country's name to Bharat.
Abhishek Banerjee, a senior Trinamool Congress leader, has accused the BJP of creating the India versus Bharat debate to divert attention from important issues such as price rise, communal tensions, border disputes, and unemployment. The debate began after Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan shared a G20 dinner invite referring to Droupadi Murmu as the President of Bharat . Banerjee criticized the distraction and urged people to hold the government accountable for problems like skyrocketing prices and rampant inflation.
"INDIA vs BHARAT is just a distraction orchestrated by the BJP. Let s cut to the chase and hold the govt accountable for skyrocketing prices, rampant inflation, communal tensions, unemployment, border disputes and their empty rhetoric of Double Engine and Nationalism," TMC MP posted on X (Former Twitter).