New Delhi: In the BJP's National Executive Meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar which has reportedly created a name change buzz. On the second day of the BJP meet, PM Modi speaking at the event, started his speech by referring to the capital city of Telangana as "Bhagyanagar".
PM Modi said that it was in Bhagyanagar that Sardar Patel had coined the term "Ek Bharat".
"PM Modi said that Hyderabad is Bhagyanagar which is a significant for all of us. Sardar Patel kept the foundation of a unified India and now it's BJP's responsibility to carry it further," BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said quoting PM Modi.
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While speaking at the event, the PM took a dig at Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar and said that the youth of the state are rejecting dynasty politics.
"The country is fed up with dynastic politics and dynastic political parties. It is difficult for such parties to survive long. Parties which ruled India for long are in terminal decline now. We should not mock them but learn from their mistakes," PM Modi said as quoted by India Today.
PM Modi hit back at opposition parties for questioning the status of democracy within their organisations.