In renaming Bhopal’s Habibganj railway station, BJP’s tribal outreach
The new name, intended to honour the bravery and legacy of Rani Kamlapati, was announced by CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan ahead of Modi's visit to Bhopal on Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas or Tribal Pride Day.
PM Narendra Modi will dedicate to nation the redeveloped Rani Kamlapati Railway Station in Bhopal on Monday. (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Monday inaugurate Bhopal’s Habibganj railway station, which has been renamed after Rani Kamlapati, the first Gond queen of Bhopal.
The new name, intended to honour the bravery and legacy of Rani Kamlapati, was announced by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ahead of Modi’s visit to Bhopal on Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas or Tribal Pride Day.
According to historians from Bhopal, the station was named Habibganj after Habibullah, the grandson of Nawab Shahjahan Begum. “In those days, a measure of land was given to royals as their ‘dugh kharch’. An village was settled in Shahpura, the land that was given to Habibullah. When a railway line was built through the area in 1874-76, a small station came up. In 1969 the family of Habibullah gave land and Rs 15 lakh to develop the station. Hence, it came to be known as Habibganj after Habibullah himself,” historian Rizwanuddin Ansari said.
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