The name of Kerala is going to change, the state government passed the proposal in the assembly, know what will be the new name
The name of the state of Kerala may change soon. The Pinarayi Vijayan government of the state has unanimously passed a resolution in the Kerala Legislative Assembly on the previous day i.e. 24 June. In this resolution, it was said to amend the Constitution to change the name of the state from ‘Kerala’ to ‘Keralaam’. In the resolution presented in the Assembly, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan called for the implementation of Article 3 of the Indian Constitution to implement this change in the First Schedule.
Proposal was brought last year also
It is worth noting that this is not the first time that the Kerala government has come to the Assembly with such a proposal, last year the state government had passed a resolution regarding this, which was sent back by the central government. Let us inform that Kerala had sought to amend the names of all the languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution to ‘Keralaam’. However, after the advice of the Union Home Ministry, the government’s attention shifted to amending only the First Schedule, and the government had to be prompted to amend the resolution passed on 9 August 2023.
Malayalam name will be ‘Keralaam’
According to The Hindu, Vijayan further said that despite the Malayalam name of the state being ‘Keralaam’, it is officially recorded as ‘Kerala’. The proposal aims to link the official name with the Malayalam pronunciation. During the discussion, N. Samsudin of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) proposed an amendment to the resolution to prevent rejection by the Centre, but the proposal was eventually rejected by the House. He also demanded action against officials who were responsible for the “lapse” in the original proposal.
