‘Do you want to keep country on the boil?’: SC junks PIL for setting up ‘renaming commission’

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February 27, 2023

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL by Ashwini Upadhyay seeking to direct the Centre to set up a ‘renaming commission’ to find out and restore the original names of places which were changed by invaders. “We are secular and supposed to protect the Constitution. You are concerned about the past, and dig it up to place its burden on the present generation. Each thing you do in this manner will create more disharmony,” a bench of Justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna said. “Your fingers being pointed at a particular community, termed barbaric. Do you want to keep the country on the boil?” Justice Joseph remarked.

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