After Subramanian Swamy, now VK Singh seeks renaming of Akbar Road after Maharana Pratap.

HENB | New Delhi | May 17, 2016:: After his compatriot struggling in Rajya Sabha as Dr Subramanian Swamy surfaced the demand earlier, now Minister of State for External Affairs General (Retired) VK Singh on Tuesday wrote to Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs M Venkaiah Naidu seeking the renaming of New Delhi’s Akbar Road as Maharana Pratap Road.

Singh, in his letter, mentioned that Maharana Pratap had played an instrumental role in stopping the might of Mughal king Akbar, and was truly secular and a man of the masses.

“His army was led by a Pathan and he had Bhils, Adivasis, and others, who formed part of his Army,” wrote Singh. He also said that by renaming the road, proper recognition would be given to Maharana Pratap’s valour and his spirit of secularism which makes our country great.

“I do feel that important personalities like Maharana Pratap and Chhatrapati Shivaji deserve greater recognition than they have been given thus far,” Singh wrote in the letter.

The Bharatiya Janata Party had earlier hailed the demand to change the name of ‘Akbar Road’ in Lutyens Delhi to ‘Maharana Pratap Road’ saying that there are a disproportionate number of roads named after Muslim conquers.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy said that Pratap was a fearless warrior and never bowed down in front any external power and hence to honour the king who made several sacrifices, the name of the road should be changed.

“There is a disproportionate number of roads named after Muslim conquers, about 33 per cent of roads in this Lutyens Delhi alone have Muslim names, so I think Maharana Pratap was the man who fought fearlessly, his cousin who had surrendered to Akbar had come and offered him compromise but he said no compromise, I will prefer to eat chapati made out of grass, therefore I fully support that Akbar Road should be renamed as Maharana Pratap Road,” said Swamy.

Earlier, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar appealed to VK Singh to make efforts to rename the road after Maharana Pratap. Khattar mentioned then that Akbar was a ruler of foreign roots with a record to torture upon Rajput men and women while Rana Pratap was the protector of Rajputs from the onslaught of the Mughals.

The lakhs of proud followers of Maharana Pratap from Indian Army and common people waiting  for Govt.’s decision for renaming Akbar Road after Maharana Pratap in his 476^th birth anniversary falls on 7th June this year 2016.