<p class="title rtejustify">A traders' body identified with the BJP on Friday demanded to rename the iconic Rajpath connecting India Gate and the Rashtrapati Bhawan after former prime minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">“...we suggest that the Rajpath in Delhi should be renamed as 'Atal Bihari Vajpayee Path and a tall statue of Shri Vajpayee should be installed at Vijay Chowk near Parliament,” Praveen Khandelwal, National General Secretary of the Confederation of All India Traders said in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Khandelwal also suggested that the Golden Quadrilateral Highway Network should be renamed as the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Rashtriya Rajmarg.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Khandelwal is a senior BJP leader and had unsuccessfully contested the Delhi Assembly elections from trading hub Chandni Chowk.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The pitch for the renaming of Rajpath, from where the Republic Day parade passes every year, comes at a time when the BJP is seeking to perpetuate Vajpayee's political legacy ahead of the election to five states and the Lok Sabha elections next year.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Chhatisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has already announced that the state's administrative capital Naya Raipur will be renamed as Atal Nagar and the Bilaspur University as Atal Bihari Vajpayee University.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Maharashtra is setting up study chairs in the name of Vajpayee at each of the 13 universities, while Himachal Pradesh is planning to name Rohtang tunnel after the departed leader.</p>
<p class="title rtejustify">A traders' body identified with the BJP on Friday demanded to rename the iconic Rajpath connecting India Gate and the Rashtrapati Bhawan after former prime minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">“...we suggest that the Rajpath in Delhi should be renamed as 'Atal Bihari Vajpayee Path and a tall statue of Shri Vajpayee should be installed at Vijay Chowk near Parliament,” Praveen Khandelwal, National General Secretary of the Confederation of All India Traders said in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Khandelwal also suggested that the Golden Quadrilateral Highway Network should be renamed as the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Rashtriya Rajmarg.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Khandelwal is a senior BJP leader and had unsuccessfully contested the Delhi Assembly elections from trading hub Chandni Chowk.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The pitch for the renaming of Rajpath, from where the Republic Day parade passes every year, comes at a time when the BJP is seeking to perpetuate Vajpayee's political legacy ahead of the election to five states and the Lok Sabha elections next year.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Chhatisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has already announced that the state's administrative capital Naya Raipur will be renamed as Atal Nagar and the Bilaspur University as Atal Bihari Vajpayee University.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Maharashtra is setting up study chairs in the name of Vajpayee at each of the 13 universities, while Himachal Pradesh is planning to name Rohtang tunnel after the departed leader.</p>
