The New Delhi Municipal Council has substituted the name of Aurangazeb road with that of APJ Abdul Kalam. It has been questioned by a lawyer before the Delhi High Court.
The powers of the municipal body in this regard are not questionable although the same are subject to a judicial review. But the naming of a structure or a facility after a high dignitary living or dead within the last 50 or 100 years is normally not to be encouraged, however esteemed or revered a person may be by the public. A good convention could be the naming of an individual at least 100 years after his / her expiry. The nation and its history is not short of great names any way for this purpose.
This could be either decided by the Parliament or adjudicated by the Supreme Court of India.
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