Kerala name will change soon: Assembly Adopts Resolution

Kerala may soon get a new name. A resolution moved by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Kerala Assembly to rename the southern state was unanimously passed on Wednesday (9 August). Kerala Name will change Soon: Assembly Adopts Resolution.

The House also sought an amendment in the Constitution where the state is referred to as Kerala. What is the new name proposed by Kerala Assembly for the state? Why does the state government want to change the name? We explain. The resolution was moved by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan urging the central government to change the name of the state to ‘Kerala’ in all languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India.

The resolution was passed by the opposition Congress-led UDF without suggesting any amendments or modifications in it. Later, Speaker AN Shamseer announced that the assembly had passed it unanimously on a show of hands. Presenting the resolution, the Chief Minister said that the state was known as ‘Kerala’ in Malayalam, but it was still Kerala in other languages.

He said that since the time of the national freedom struggle, the need for the creation of an integral Kerala had emerged strongly for the Malayalam speaking communities, but the name of the state was written as Kerala in the First Schedule of the Constitution.

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