Request In Supreme Court To Find "Original Names" Of Old Religious Sites
NDTV
The plea has been moved by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay through his advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey, who has sought to issue appropriate direction to the Home Ministry to constitute a "Renaming Commission".
A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking to constitute a "Renaming Commission" to find out the original names of 'ancient historical cultural religious places', named after barbaric foreign invaders in order to maintain sovereignty and to secure 'Right to Dignity, Right to Religion and Right to Culture.
The plea has been moved by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay through his advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey, who has sought to issue appropriate direction to the Home Ministry to constitute a "Renaming Commission" to find out the original names of 'ancient historical cultural religious places', named after barbaric foreign invaders in order to maintain sovereignty and to secure 'Right to Dignity, Right to Religion and Right to Culture' guaranteed under Articles 21, 25 and 29 of the Constitution.
Alternatively, the petitioner has urged the court to direct the Archaeological Survey of India to research and publish the initial names of ancient historical-cultural religious places, which were renamed by barbaric foreign invaders, in order to secure the 'Right to Know' guaranteed under Article 19 of the Constitution.
The petition has urged the court to direct the Centre and State Governments to update their websites and records and mention the original names of ancient historical cultural religious places, named after the barbaric foreign invaders.
