PM Modi calls Hyderabad ‘Bhagyanagar’ on final day of BJP’s meeting

Triggering a name-change buzz, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar in his address to party delegates.

When asked if the name of Hyderabad would be changed to Bhagyanagar, Union Minister Piyush Goyal responded, "When the BJP comes to power in Telangana, the CM will decide along with his cabinet colleagues."

“The PM said Hyderabad is Bhagyanagar, which is of significance for all of us. It was in Bhagyanagar that freedom fighter Sardar Patel laid the foundation of a unified India and coined the term 'Ek Bharat'. And now it's BJP's responsibility to carry the legacy forward,” BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad said.


Yogi Adityanath, Uttar Pradesh's chief minister, pushed the subject during the 2020 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections when he urged residents to vote for BJP "to transform Hyderabad into Bhagyanagar."

Lending credence to the debate, party general secretary BL Santhosh also tweeted that it was in Bhagyanagar that Sardar Patel gave us ‘Ek Bharath’.