Time to rename Nizamabad as Induru, says BJP MP Dharmapuri Arvind

HYDERABAD: BJP Lok Sabha MP Dharmapuri Arvind on Monday claimed that people of his constituency, Nizamabad, want the city to be renamed as Induru.
Arvind recalled that when he had gone to New Delhi soon after winning the Nizamabad Lok Sabha seat in April elections, some persons in the national capital had asked him where he had been elected from.
“When I said Nizamabad, they said it sounded like a region in Pakistan.This is the impression they had,” the BJP MP said.
Interacting with mediapersons in Nizamabad, the MP said people were convinced that misfortune has come to stay ever since the northern district of Telangana was renamed Nizamabad in 1905. “Ever since, the Nizamsagar reservoir has often dried up, the Nizam Sugar Factory has been shut down and turmeric farmers have been facing problems,” he said. He further said people feel that Induru would bring good tidings for them. “Induru has a prosperous sound attached to it. Indu also sounds like Hindu in Hindustan. It is also spelt like India,” the MP argued.
The district’s original name was Induru, taken off on Indrapura, as it was founded during the reign of Rashtrakuta ruler, Indra III. It was named after the founder of the Asaf Jah dynasty, Nizam Ul Mulk.
Chairman of Telangana Water Resources Development Corporation and a strong Telangana ideologue V Prakash said changing the established names would create division in society. “TRS government will not support such proposals nor entertain such thoughts,” he said. Prakash said it was the Nizam who had built Nizamsagar, which was the first such irrigation project in Asia in those times. “It was the Nizam who had established industries and developed the district,” he said.