Jackie Shroff, Amitabh Bachchan and different Bollywood celebrities have reacted to the continuing controversy over the usage of 'Bharat' in preference to 'India'. The debate spiralled over a G20 dinner invitation which defined Droupadi Murmu as 'President of Bharat'. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan shared on X a G20 dinner invitation from President Murmu which described her position as 'President of Bharat', leading to allegations from the Opposition that the authorities turned into looking to alternate the call of the u . S . From India to Bharat. Now, reacting to the same, Jackie Shroff said, "Earlier, our united states turned into referred to as Bharat right? My name is Jackie, a few call me Jocky, and a few call me Jaki. People change my name because of that I will not change. Just the call will trade, we can now not. You humans maintain converting the united states of america’s name, however don’t forget which you are an Indian." Jackie along with Dia Mirza attended the 'Planet India' campaign occasion in New Delhi wherein he spoke on the problem.
Amitabh Bachchan
'Bharat mata ki jai," celebrity Amitabh Bachchan wrote. He additionally shared a tricolour emoji with the publish.

Kangana Ranaut's tweet
Kangana took to her Twitter and shared a protracted observe explaining why Bharat is more meaningful than the name India. She wrote, "What is there to love in this name? First of all, they couldn’t pronounce ‘Sindhu’ toh usko bigad ke ‘ Indus’ kar diya. Phir kabhi Hindos kabhi Indos kuch bhi gol mol karke India bana diya."

"From the time of Mahabharata, all of the kingdoms who participated in the Great War of Kurukshetra got here beneath one continent known as Bharat so why were they calling us Indu Sindu?? Also the call Bharat is so meaningful, what's the that means of India ?  I recognise they called Red Indians that due to the fact in olden English Indian truely intended a slave, they named us Indians because that changed into our new identification given to us by way of British. Even in olden days dictionary Indian’s that means was cited as slave they recently modified it. Also it’s no longer our call we're Bhartiya not Indian."