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Express News Service NEW DELHI: The BJP has unleashed its familiar name-game on the national capital. On Tuesday, it demanded renaming of old roads of Delhi that bear the “Mughal baggage.” The exception is the recently renamed road — APJ Abul Kalam (former President) Marg. Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta has written to the civic body, the Municipal Council (North), demanding that roads named after Mughal emperors and others “symbolizing Muslim slavery” should be renamed. The two-page letter points to Tughlaq Road, Akbar Road and Babar and Humayun lanes and demands they should be renamed after Sikh Guru Gobind Singh, the Mewar emperor Maharana Pratap, freedom-fighter Khudiram Bose and Maharishi Valmiki, respectively. The party has rediscovered the country’s first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat and wants Shahjahan Road to be renamed after the General who died in a chopper crash last December. If you guessed Congress to be in the BJP crosshairs by its renaming tactic, you are right. The Congress office is located at 24, Akbar Road. Delhi Congress chief Anil Kumar Choudhary was quick to react. He accused the BJP of trying to create social unrest with its move to rename 40 historic places and roads in the city after failing to cash in on the bulldozer politics. “We appeal to PM Modi to name the new parliament building after (late) Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, which will send out a positive message about the country’s communal amity,” Choudhary said. He also appealed to the PM to nam...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was disqualified as Lok Sabha MP last month following his conviction over 'Modi surname' remarks, vacated his official bungalow at 12, Tughlaq Lane, Delhi on Saturday. Since it was public holiday, Eid al-Fitr, Gandhi was not able to hand over the keys of the bungalow to the Lok Sabha Secretariat. Several Congress leaders extended support to the former party president with a hashtag 'MeraGharAapkaGhar' on social media. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that Gandhi vacating the bungalow was an "exemplary gesture". "Today @RahulGandhi vacates his home at TughlaqLane in response to the LokSabha Secretariat’s order. The Court gave him 30 days to appeal & the HC or SC could still reinstate him, but his exemplary gesture to move out shows his respect for the rules," Tharoor tweeted. Rahul Gandhi was asked to vacate the premises by April 22 following his conviction and two-year sentence by a Surat court over 'Modi surname' remarks. On April 14, Gandhi had shifted his office and some personal belongings from the bungalow to his mother Sonia Gandhi's residence. He has been living in the bungalow for nearly two decades. Recently, the sessions court in Surat rejected Rahul's appeal to set aside the conviction. The magisterial court order convicting Gandhi of defamation and two-year sentence led his disqualification as MP. The party had said that the session court order will be challenged in the Gujarat High Court next week. A day after his disqualificat...