Roads
Because their consulate is located on that street, “The road was named after Ho Chi Minh to spite the Americans.
The advisory committee led by Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj), which will hold its first meeting after Durga Puja , will take up proposals for renaming Kolkata’s streets in the first phase, sources said. Proposals have come for other roads, too,” Kartik Maharaj said. Bengal BJP veteran and former governor Roy said roads honouring Lenin and Marx would definitely be renamed. The homes of both poets are in that neighbourhood,” Roy said. Ho-Chi-Minh Sarani, he said, should be renamed after Martin Luther King. At the same time, we will be making amends for the mischief committed by the leftists,” Roy said, adding that the statue of Lenin at the intersection of Jawaharlal Nehru Road and Sidho Kanho Dahar must be removed. “A prominent thoroughfare should be named after Sardar Patel,” he said. Roy said roads and places bearing the names of “communal Muslims” should be renamed after nationalist Muslims. “A bus stand in Barasat named after Titumir can be renamed after essayist Kazi Abdul Wadud, educator Begum Rokeya or writer S Wajid Ali,” he said.
Among the other members of the panel, which was constituted last Friday, are former Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy, CM’s adviser Subrata Gupta and Kolkata Municipal Corporation commissioner Smita Pandey. “Ho-Chi-Minh Sarani, Lenin Sarani and Karl Marx Sarani will get new names. “The members will consider the relevance of the personalities (after whom the roads have been proposed to be named) to the Indian and Bengali culture. Our recommendations will be sent to the assembly. “My suggestion is that Lenin Sarani be named after mathematician and Bharatiya Jana Sangh president Debaprasad Ghosh. Karl Marx Sarani in Kidderpore can be named after Michael Madhusudan Dutt or Rangalal Bandyopadhyay. We will be honouring Martin Luther King if the road is renamed after him.
I will place the proposal before the committee.