VS: Kerala may be renamed Keralam

Recently,the government had constituted a committee,headed by the Revenue Minister,to study the matter.

The argument behind the demand to change the states name was that several other Indian states and cities have been renamed on the basis of their mother tongue. In Kerala,the cities of Canannor,Calicut and Trichur had been renamed Kannur,Kozhikode and Thrissur respectively,in accordance with their pronunciation in Malayalam.

I have been raising the issue for the last three years. However,it could be raised as a submission only during this session, Palissery pointed out later.