Tharoor suggests ‘BHARAT’ name for opposition alliance

New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday suggested that the opposition parties bloc of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) as ‘BHARAT’ which means alliance for ‘Betterment, Harmony And Responsible, Advancement for Tomorrow’ then the ruling BJP might stop its fatuous game of changing names.

His remarks came amid the bitter war of words between the ruling BJP and the Congress after the Rashtrapati Bhawan sent out invites for the G20 dinner of September 9 in the name of ‘President of Bharat’ instead of the usual ‘President of India’.

Tharoor wrote on X, “We could of course call ourselves the Alliance for Betterment, Harmony And Responsible Advancement for Tomorrow (BHARAT). Then perhaps the ruling party might stop this fatuous game of changing names.”

The Congress-led opposition parties have dubbed the alliance of the like-minded parties as INDIA during the second meeting of the bloc in Karnataka’s Bengaluru on July 17 and 18. Earlier Prime Minister Narendra Modi had targeted the INDIA alliance saying that even Indian Mujahideen and East India Company had the words INDIA in them.