NCP takes dig at BJP over Gujarat’s bid to rename dragon fruit

The NCP on Wednesday centered the BJP over the Gujarat govt’s resolution to rename dragon fruit as ‘Kamalam’, pronouncing the time will not be some distance when the saffron party would get started calling the rustic as “Kamalastan”.

The BJP has now began “branding itself on end result additionally,” NCP leader spokesperson Mahesh Tapase stated in a observation.

Gujarat Leader Minister Vijay Rupani on Tuesday stated his govt has made up our minds to rename dragon fruit as ‘Kamalam’.

Reacting to it, Tapase stated, “The BJP has now began branding itself on end result additionally. We worry that the time is also now not some distance once they would get started addressing Hindustan as Kamalastan.” The BJP’s election image is lotus, which is named ‘kamal’ in Hindi.

Rupani on Tuesday stated the Gujarat govt has carried out for a patent to switch the nomenclature of dragon fruit, which is in large part grown in Kutch, Navsari and other portions of Saurashtra, to ‘Kamalam’.

He additionally stated there’s not anything political in the back of renaming of the fruit.

“The title dragon fruit isn’t correct, and because of its title one thinks of China. So we’ve given it the title ‘Kamalam’,” Rupani stated.

“Farmers say it looks as if lotus and that’s the reason we’ve named it ‘Kamalam’,” he added.