The Maharashtra Congress Monday sought a reply from the Mumbai Metro administration after it changed the name of a station from Nehru Science Centre to Science Centre in Worli, and demanded that it should be reinstated to that of India's first prime minister. In a post on X, Sachin Sawant, chief spokesperson, Mumbai Congress, said the entire country knows that the area in Worli is known as Nehru Science Centre. "Yet, because the BJP suffers from an allergy to the name Nehru, they have deliberately omitted it and named the metro station merely as Science Centre," he said. संपूर्ण देशाला माहीत आहे की वरळी येथील हे स्थान नेहरू सायन्स सेंटर म्हणूनच ओळखले जाते.@MumbaiMetro3 यांच्या ट्विटमध्येही ‘डिस्कव्हरी हब्स’ यादीत या ठिकाणाचे नाव नेहरू सायन्स सेंटर असेच दाखवले आहे.पण नेहरू या नावाची अॅलर्जी असल्यामुळे भाजपने मुद्दामहून ते नाव वगळून या मेट्रो… https://t.co/n2TJI4BbEW— Sachin Sawant सचिन सावंत (@sachin_inc) October 13, 2025 "This is highly objectionable and a deep insult to the memory of former Prime Minister and world icon, Bharat Ratna Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ji, whose vision laid the foundations of India’s scientific temper, industrial progress, and modern outlook. Once again, this act exposes the petty, intolerant, and vindictive mindset of the BJP," said Sawant. The Congress leader said the government is referring to the 2013 draft notification. “It has been 12 years, and the BJP-led government changed the original name too. Why was Nehru's name omitted?" he asked, adding that the reply also confirms that the entire planning and designing of the Metro route was completed in the Congress government, before 2014. "They earlier changed the name of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi to Prime Ministers’ Museum, and replaced Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) with My Bharat. At the same time, they renamed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad as Narendra Modi Stadium,” Sawant pointed out in his post. “Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s contribution is so monumental and unshakable that no matter how much the BJP despises him or attempts to malign his legacy, such efforts will remain as futile as spitting at the sky," he added. When contacted, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) said the name of the station was decided as Science Museum in a 2013 notification. "As the actual name of the building is Science Centre, it was changed to Science Centre,” MMRC said. MMRC has yet to reply to a follow-up question on when the name was changed.
