delhi is gasping — literally. The air is poison, the streets are filthy, the traffic is soul-crushing, and the skyline is tangled with a web of overhead wires that could double as a dystopian art installation.
But what’s the ruling party’s solution to this chaos? Not cleaner air. Not better infrastructure. Not unclogged roads.
They want to rename it.
BJP mp Praveen Khandelwal has written to Home minister amit Shah requesting that India’s capital be renamed “Indraprastha” — a move, he claims, will restore its civilizational pride. Because apparently, a new name can fix decades of negligence.
🏙️ A City on the Brink — And No One’s Breathing Easy
delhi today is a slow-motion disaster. The Air Quality Index has been hovering between “Severe” and “Hazardous”; schools are shutting down, and hospitals are filling up with patients struggling to breathe.
Yet, amid all this, the focus shifts not to lungs, but to legends. Instead of funding pollution control systems or holding construction mafias and vehicular polluters accountable, the government seems to believe PR is cheaper than policy.
🧹 Dirty Streets, Filthy Politics
Take a stroll through Delhi’s alleys, and you’ll find heaps of garbage, overflowing drains, and a stench that no name change can mask. Civic agencies play bureaucratic blame games while the citizens wade through neglect.
But it’s easier to hold a press conference than a broom. So instead of addressing the mess, they rebrand the city like a failed product in a new bottle.
🚦 Traffic Chaos, Policy Paralysis
Every commuter in delhi knows that a two-kilometer drive can turn into a 40-minute ordeal. Flyovers sprout faster than solutions, and metro expansions barely dent the gridlock.
While infrastructure gasps for innovation, the government’s focus drifts to the Mahabharata era, because apparently, nostalgia is more convenient than governance.
⚡ Overhead Wires, Overblown Rhetoric
Delhi’s skyline looks like it’s been wrapped in metal spaghetti — a crisscross of dangling wires symbolizing the city’s chaotic planning. But for the ruling party, it’s not the tangled cables that bother them — it’s the name on the city’s letterhead.
Aesthetics, it seems, only matter when they fit a narrative.
🧾 Indraprastha or Illusion?
The name Indraprastha evokes grandeur and mythology. But invoking history doesn’t clean the air, fix roads, or unclog sewers. You can’t breathe mythology. You can’t drive on Heritage.
delhi doesn’t need a name change; it needs a pulse check. What it requires is urban vision, environmental action, and political accountability — not another cultural gimmick wrapped in saffron symbolism.
🎪 The Great Distraction Act
When governance fails, distraction begins. Renaming cities has become the go-to circus act — a shiny diversion from real issues. Ayodhya, Prayagraj, ahmedabad — now Delhi?
Every renaming is a headline. Every headline is a smokescreen.
And in delhi, there’s already enough smoke to go around.
💀 Final Blow: You Can’t Rebrand Decay
You can repaint a crumbling wall, but it’ll still fall apart from the inside. Delhi’s problems are not cosmetic — they’re systemic.
Changing the name to Indraprastha won’t change the fact that millions are coughing their lungs out, traffic is paralyzing productivity, and civic systems are collapsing under political apathy.
If symbolism is governance, delhi is doomed to choke on both smoke and slogans.
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