The deputy mayor of Gurgaon has admitted he got the idea of the name change from the RSS branch. Madhav Bhavan, the RSS office, in Gurgaon. “After passing the resolution, we started a signature campaign and pitched in Surender Pal who acted as Dronacharya in the TV serial Mahabharata,” said Kataria.Īlways clad in saffron, Kataria said Gurugram represented the originality of the area and needed to be restored. Gurugram Gaurav was launched in June 2014, after which the Gurgaon municipal corporation (MCG) passed a resolution for a name change. Read | A walk down memory lane: The many changes Gurgaon has seen
Kataria-led Gurugram Gaurav has been campaigning for the name change for two years. Hence, it was known as Gurugram (teacher’s village). Gurgaon changed its name to Gurugram on Tuesday with the district administration saying the land was given to Guru Dronacharya by his disciples as gurudakshina (teaching fee) in the Mahabharata era. We always wanted the area to have its original name” Anil Kashyap, the Gurgaon district RSS chief, told HT. In Sangh shakhas and meetings, we introduce ourselves as being from Gurugram.
“What is new in it? The area was named Gurugram and we have been using this name. The RSS office ‘Madhav Bhawan’ at sector 12-A has used Gurugram in its address for a long time and Gurgaon’s deputy mayor Parminder Kataria admits he got the idea for Gurgaon’s new name from RSS branches. The Haryana government has decided to change the name of Gurgaon district to Gurugram,(Praveen Kumar / HT Photo) The local branch of the RSS has been using ‘Gurugram’ instead of Gurgaon in its address for a long time. The renaming of Gurgaon to Gurugram may have been a shock to its two million residents but the name has been used for years by local members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
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