The Madhya Pradesh authorities has determined to rename the Hoshangabad district as Narmadapuram. The identical was introduced by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. On the event of Narmada Jayanti, the CM introduced that the identify of Hoshangabad has been modified and it’ll now be often known as Narmadapuram.
The Hoshangabad city, the headquarter of Hoshangabad district, is already also referred to as Narmadapuram among the many locals. This is as a result of the district lies within the valley of Narmada river, with the city situated on the south financial institution of the river.
The locals within the space had been demanding that Hoshangabad must be renamed Narmadapuram. The demand was additionally raised by a number of BJP leaders just lately, following which the BJP govt determined to just accept the demand. In November final yr, Madhya Pradesh Assembly Protem Speaker and BJP chief Rameshwar Sharma had raised the demand, saying that Hoshang Shah was a looter, who had attacked the town and destroyed its temples. Following that, BJP Madhya Pradesh president V D Sharma had additionally mentioned that Hoshangabad must be renamed as Narmadapuram on the favored demand of individuals.
The identify Hoshangabad was given after Hoshang Shah, the primary formally appointed Sultan of the Malwa Sultanate of Central India. Like a number of different Muslim rulers in India, Hoshang Shah had additionally destroyed temples, and constructed mosques of their locations. Apart from temples, he had additionally destroyed different infrastructure, like earthen dams constructed on Betwa river by Raja Bhoj. He had demolished the dams to destroy the huge water reservoir often known as Bhopal Lakes constructed by Raja Bhoj to retailer water.