Chandigarh Airport To Be Renamed After Bhagat Singh, PM Modi Announces
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The move is being seen as BJP's one-up over the Aam Aadmi Party over the martyred legend's legacy.
Chandigarh airport will be renamed after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today on his monthly radio address "Mann Ki Baat". The move is being seen as BJP's one-up against the Aam Aadmi Party over the martyred legend's legacy.
"As a tribute to the great freedom fighter, it has been decided that the Chandigarh airport will now be named after Shaheed Bhagat Singh," PM Modi said.
The Punjab Chief Minister began his term with great pomp and show with a symbolic tribute to the iconic freedom fighter. AAP had hosted Bhagwant Mann's swearing in ceremony at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of Bhagat Singh. The venue was awash in the colour "Basanti (yellow)".
Yellow turbans, the trademark of comic-turned-politician Bhagwant Mann, filled the village Khatkar Kalan in response to his call to people to wear "Basanti turbans and dupattas" to his oath. Yellow was the theme of the venue and decor. Bhagat Singh used to wear turbans of the colour, which came to symbolise revolution.
