• A 10-member committee appointed by the West Bengal government is reviewing street and landmark names across the state.
• The panel is headed by Hindu monk Swami Pradiptananda, known as Kartik Maharaj of Bharat Sevashram Sangha.
• Members include BJP leader Tathagata Roy, adviser to Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Subrata Gupta, and Kolkata Municipal Corporation Commissioner Smita Pandey.
• The committee is expected to hold its first meeting after Durga Puja.
• Roads under consideration include Lenin Sarani, Karl Marx Sarani and Ho Chi Minh Sarani in Kolkata.
• Lenin Sarani was earlier Dharmatala Street; Karl Marx Sarani was earlier Circular Garden Reach Road; Ho Chi Minh Sarani was earlier Harrington Street.
• These roads were renamed after Communist leaders in 1969-70 under the United Front government.
• Tathagata Roy has suggested: Lenin Sarani to be renamed after mathematician and former Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Debaprasad Ghosh; Karl Marx Sarani after Michael Madhusudan Dutt or Rangalal Bandyopadhyay; Ho Chi Minh Sarani after Martin Luther King Jr.
• Roy also proposed renaming some roads named after Muslim personalities after figures he described as "nationalist Muslims."
• CPI(M) criticised the government for focusing on renaming roads instead of governance and employment.
• BJP spokesperson Bimal Shankar Nanda said renaming roads after Independence is not new and supported replacing Communist-era names.
• Kolkata Municipal Corporation renamed Suhrawardy Avenue as Gopal Mukherjee Road on June 20, 2026.
• West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari welcomed that change as a correction of a "historical wrong."
• During Mamata Banerjee’s tenure, other Kolkata roads and intersections were renamed, including Lee Road to Satyajit Ray Dharani, Dhapa Road to Barun Sengupta Sarani, CIT Road and EM Bypass intersection to Gour Kishore Ghosh Square, and a portion of Moore Avenue to Amitava Chowdhury Sarani.

• A 10-member panel headed by Swami Pradiptananda, popularly known as Kartik Maharaj of Bharat Sevashram Sangha, is expected to hold its first meeting after Durga Puja.
• The panel will consider proposals for renaming roads named after Marx, Lenin and Ho Chi Minh.
• The item concerns Kolkata road names and possible renaming decisions.

• A West Bengal panel is reviewing proposals to rename several Kolkata roads named after communist leaders.
• Roads mentioned: Karl Marx Sarani, Lenin Sarani and Ho Chi Minh Sarani.
• The proposal has triggered a wider debate in Kolkata.

• A 10-member advisory committee has been formed by the Bengal government to rechristen roads, bridges and public places across the state.
• The panel is headed by Swami Pradiptananda, popularly known as Kartik Maharaj; members include former Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy, chief minister’s adviser Subrata Gupta and Kolkata Municipal Corporation commissioner Smita Pandey.
• The committee is expected to hold its first meeting after Durga Puja.
• Roads cited as possible rename candidates in Kolkata include Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Lenin Sarani and Karl Marx Sarani.
• The committee may also recommend renaming Biswa Bangla Sarani as Shri Krishna Chaitanya Avenue.
• Lenin Sarani was earlier Dharmatalla Street, renamed in 1970 during Vladimir Lenin’s birth centenary.
• Karl Marx Sarani was earlier Circular Garden Reach Road, renamed in 1971.
• Ho-Chi-Minh Sarani was originally named after John Herbert Harrington, a British colonial administrator and orientalist in Bengal.
• Tathagata Roy said Lenin Sarani should be renamed after mathematician and former Bharatiya Jana Sangh president Debaprasad Ghosh.
• For Karl Marx Sarani in Kidderpore, Roy suggested Michael Madhusudan Dutt or Rangalal Bandyopadhyay.
• For Ho-Chi-Minh Sarani, Roy proposed Martin Luther King.
• Roy also said the Lenin statue at the junction of Jawaharlal Nehru Road and Sidho Kanho Dahar should be removed and a prominent road should be named after Sardar Patel.
• He suggested some roads and public places named after what he called communal Muslims be renamed after nationalist Muslim figures instead, including proposals for a Barasat bus stand currently named after Titumir.

The West Bengal government is examining proposals to rename roads, bridges and public places. A 10-member committee headed by Swami Pradiptananda (Kartik Maharaj) is expected to meet after Durga Puja; its recommendations will go to the state Assembly. Members include former Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy, Chief Minister’s adviser Subrata Gupta and Kolkata Municipal Corporation Commissioner Smita Pandey.

The roads under consideration are Lenin Sarani, Karl Marx Sarani and Ho Chi Minh Sarani. Roy proposed renaming Lenin Sarani after mathematician and former Bharatiya Jana Sangh president Debaprasad Ghosh; Karl Marx Sarani in Kidderpore after poets Michael Madhusudan Dutt or Rangalal Bandyopadhyay; and Ho Chi Minh Sarani after Martin Luther King Jr. He also proposed removing the Lenin statue at the Jawaharlal Nehru Road–Sidhho-Kanhu Dahar crossing and naming a major city road after Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Lenin Sarani, formerly Dharmatala Street, was renamed in 1970; Circular Garden Reach Road became Karl Marx Sarani in 1971. The committee has also received other road-renaming proposals.