Mubashir Bukhari
Jammu (NVI): After changing the name of historic ‘City Chowk’ to ‘Bharat Mata Chowk’, the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has proposed to name the state-run university and airport in Jammu after Dogra rulers.
Senior BJP leader and Deputy Mayor of JMC, Purnima Sharma said that two proposals were moved in the general house to rename Jammu Airport and Jammu University after Dogra rulers.
According to the resolutions, the Jammu airport should be renamed as Maharaja Hari Singh Jammu Airport and the local university as the Maharaja Gulab Singh Jammu University.
Sharma said that they have recommended to the UT administration to rename these institutions.
Maharaja Gulab Singh was the founder of the Dogra rule in Jammu and Kashmir and Maharaja Hari Singh was the last Dogra ruler, who acceded Jammu and Kashmir to India in 1947.
Earlier, historic City Chowk in old Jammu was renamed ‘Bharat Mata Chowk’ while another intersection was named ‘Atal Chowk’ in memory of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee after the passage of a resolution by the general house of the BJP-led JMC.
The Bharatiya Janata Party swept the JMC polls, winning 43 of the 75 wards, after the urban local bodies elections were held in the erstwhile state in four phases from October 8 to 16 in 2018 after a gap of 13 years.
