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BJP person Sujeeth Kumar connected Friday (December 5, 2025) urged the Centre to region the rubric 'Lord' erstwhile referring to British Viceroys and Governor Generals successful schoolhouse textbooks, NCERT publications, authorities documents and authoritative websites, saying the signifier perpetuates a "colonial mindset" adjacent 75 years aft independence.
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Raising the contented during Zero Hour successful the Rajya Sabha, Mr. Kumar highlighted the wide usage of the rubric crossed acquisition and authoritative materials. "I did a random cheque of each these websites, documents, and schoolhouse textbooks, and this is what I found," helium said.
The BJP MP pointed retired that NCERT past textbooks for Classes 8 and 12 incorporate galore references to Lord Curzon, Lord Mountbatten, Lord Dalhousie and Lord Leighton, among others.
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Similarly, helium claimed that the authoritative websites of the Ministry of Culture, the Press Information Bureau (PIB), the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), and adjacent the Raj Bhavan, present renamed 'Lok Bhavan' of Bihar, proceed to usage the rubric for British assemblage administrators.
"During British rule, the assemblage rulers utilized and abused the powerfulness to springiness titles for their imperialistic designs and to beforehand this mendacious communicative of radical superiority. This was a rubric fixed by the British to the British for the British needs," Mr. Kumar said.
He questioned wherefore India should proceed placing British officials "on a demigod-like pedestal" by calling them Lords, particularly erstwhile galore committed "horrendous and barbaric crimes" against Indians, portion the country's ain state fighters are not accorded akin reverence.
"A vibrant ideology similar ours, which besides is the largest and oldest ideology connected earth, should not proceed this signifier arsenic it perpetuates a assemblage mindset, goes against the tone of societal equality, and besides goes against the missive and tone of our ain constitution," the BJP person added.
Mr. Kumar drew parallels with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's determination to rename Rajpath arsenic Kartavya Path, describing it arsenic much than ceremonial symbolism.
"This alteration reflects a displacement from the assemblage cognition to a much duty-oriented name. It reflects a displacement distant from assemblage symbols and towards civic responsibility, towards our nationalist pride," helium said.
The MP besides referenced the Prime Minister's code connected the 76th Independence Day from the Red Fort, wherever Mr. Modi outlined the Panch Pran (five resolves) for the Amrit Kal — the 25 years starring up to India's centenary of independency successful 2047. The 2nd resolution, Mr. Kumar noted, emphasises liberating the federation from immoderate hint of the "slavery mindset."
"In nary portion of our existence, not adjacent successful the deepest corners of our caput oregon habits, should determination beryllium immoderate ounce of slavery. We person to liberate ourselves from the slavery mindset, which is disposable successful innumerable things wrong and astir us," Mr. Kumar said.
