Yes, you heard that right, India might be officially renamed Bharat! This whole speculation arose when the G20 Summit invites for this year used ‘President of Bharat’ instead of the traditional norm of writing ‘President of India’. Later BJP spokesperson also addressed this when he shared a document on the PM’s visit to Indonesia where he was referred to as ‘Prime Minister of Bharat’. Also this year, the attendees of the G20 Summit from India/Bharat would have ‘Bharat’ written on their identity cards. All this official work made sense that something big was coming. We might or might not drop the name India but an official name shift as India might be renamed Bharat is inevitable.
The best part of this controversy? Pakistan might change its name to India!! Now that is extremely funny and so ridiculous but this is a topic for later. Today we have compiled the best and funniest tweets as Twitter is going ballistic over this piece of news.
Let us have a look at some memes on the ‘India might be renamed Bharat’ conversation.
1. For the unversed BSNL stands for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited! Way ahead of time they were!
2. Although we will be called ‘Bhartiya’ officially which we already are but we like the way they are thinking!
3. Meanwhile BHEL and Bharti Airtel joining Bharat Gas!
4. The Reserve Bank of Bharat sounds good but are we looking at another de-monetization trick? Wah Modiji Wah!
5. Need to ask the same from IITians though now that they are in BITs
6. Yay! We saved 3 seconds of our lives!
7. ISRO to BSRO and IIM to BIM!
8. Poo knew what was coming! She was intelligent but no one agreed because of her good looks!
9. Indian to Canadian to Indian to now Bhartiya
10. Bangladesh Premier League laughing in the corner!
This was our take on the hilarious ‘India might be renamed Bharat’ memes. Obviously, we are not dropping the name India otherwise we are looking at lakhs of crores of government inventory for changing all official documents which means taxpayers’ money going down for this. Also, Bharat is actually the official name as well as said in Article 1 of the Constitution, “India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.” So we are not technically changing anything, just using another name for the country which dates back way before it was named India, Remember our National Anthem? ‘Bharat Bhagya Vidhata’