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The Union Cabinet connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) approved the renaming of the State of “Kerala” to “Keralam”, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced. On June 24, 2024, the Kerala Assembly had unanimously passed a solution urging the Union authorities to rename the State arsenic “Keralam”.
The determination came up of the Kerala Assembly elections expected to beryllium held successful April-May.
The Kerala Assembly had passed the solution for the 2nd clip due to the fact that the Ministry of Home Affairs, which reviewed the archetypal resolution, suggested immoderate method changes.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who had moved the resolution, wanted the Union Government to alteration the confederate State’s sanction from Kerala to Keralam successful each languages included successful the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.
Moving the resolution, the Chief Minister had said the State was called ‘Keralam’ successful Malayalam and that the request to signifier a agreed Kerala for the Malayalam-speaking communities had powerfully emerged since the clip of the nationalist state struggle.
(With inputs from PTI)
