Pakistan Scraps Plan To Name Shadman Chowk After Bhagat Singh
ABP NewsA proposal to rename Shadman Chowk in Lahore after Bhagat Singh and install his statue has been dropped based on the opinion of a retired military official, according to the district government of Lahore in the Punjab province of Pakistan. "A proposed plan of the city district government Lahore to name Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh and place his statue there has been scrapped in light of an observation submitted by Commodore Tariq Majeed," the Metropolitan Corporation of Lahore said, news agency PTI reported. The response came in reply to a contempt petition filed by Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation Pakistan Chairman Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi in the LHC. It stated that Majeed, employed by the government in a committee to rename Shadman Chowk after Singh, in his observations outlined that Bhagat Singh "was not a revolutionary but a criminal, in today’s terms he was a terrorist, he killed a British police officer, and for this crime, he was hanged along with two accomplices".
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