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Jammu: Historic City Chowk Renamed As ‘Bharat Mata Chowk’, Circular Road Chowk To Be ‘Atal Ji Chowk’
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The general house of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) on Sunday (1 March) passed a resolution to rename the historic 'City Chowk', the commercial hub in old Jammu, as 'Bharat Mata Chowk' , reports India Today.
The JMC has also renamed the starting point of the circular road near Panjtirthi in Jammu as 'Atal Chowk' is in the memory of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
"I had moved a resolution in the general house some four months ago demanding renaming of the 'City Chowk' to 'Bharat Mata Chowk on the popular demand of the public," senior BJP leader and Deputy Mayor of the JMC Purnima Sharma told PTI.
"This place is historic and a witness to major decisions and protests in the past. Every year people are hoisting the tricolour on Republic and Independence days in this chowk. There was a popular demand from the public to rename this chowk as Bharat Mata Chowk," Sharma added.
Municipal elections in Jammu were held after a gap of 13 years in 2018 and the BJP won 43 of the 75 wards in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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