:dateline:On March 31, the state assembly of Haryana unanimously resolved to name Chandigarh Airport after Shaheed Bhagat Singh. The state assembly has sent a recommendation to the Union government of India to implement the resolution.
The resolution was presented in the assembly of Haryana by Cabinet Minister Ram Bilas Sharma and was received warmly� by the present MLAs in the assembly.
Chandigarh Airport was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Established in the district of Mohali, the financial responsibility�of the airport was shared�by the Punjab, Haryana and Central governments.
In 2009, the Punjab Legislative Assembly�had unanimously passed a resolution to name�the airport�Shaheed-E-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh International Airport. �The leader of the opposition in�Haryana Legislative Assembly, Abhay Singh Chautala, also supported Punjab’s�naming proposal.
In October 2015, Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s nephews Professor Jagmohan Singh and Abhey Singh Sandhu, along with Aam Aadmi Party MP Dharamvir Gandhi, youth�from Punjab and several other states, and�activists from the tri-city, assembled at Tribune Chowk and demanded that the name change take place. �On December 17, 2015, Communist Party of India (Marxist) criticized�the Center�and the Haryana Government for trying to name the airport after RSS ideologue, Mangal Sein, instead of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
They should also rename Indira Gandhi International Airport considering how much damage she did to India both in the emergency (which she enacted simply to avoid the consequences of being found guilty of fraud in Ahmedabad Court), the horrors she orchestrated in the Punjab to wrestle political power form the Akali Dal party and finally her high treason of asking Great Britain – former colonial power that Bhagat Singh gave his life fighting! – for planning assistance in storming the Golden Temple.