PM Modi calls Hyderabad 'Bhagyanagar' amid name change buzz

Giving out a major political signal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called Hyderabad as 'Bhagyanagar' in his address to the BJP members during the national executive meeting of the party in the city. Renaming of the Telangana capital has for long been a demand of the BJP which is making all-out efforts to make inroads in the state.

“Hyderabad is Bhagyanagar which is significant for all of us,” Modi said. Noting that the city was the mile stone in Sardar Patel's 'Ek Bharat' (United India) campaign, the prime minister said the BJP's obligation is to make the country 'Shreshtha Bharat'.

According to BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, Modi in his address to the BJP members noted the rapid expansion of the party in the country over the years. “He very proudly conveyed his profound appreciation of courage of all party workers in states like Telangana, West Bengal and Kerala,” Prasad said.

In a apparent jibe at the Congress party, the prime minister said the parties which ruled India for a long time are in a terminal decline now. “We should neither laugh at them nor mock them. Instead we should learn from their mistakes,” Modi was quoted as saying by the BJP leader.

The prime minister also said the country is fed up with dynastic politics and dynastic political parties, adding that it would be difficult for such parties to survive for a long time.