Row over renaming Princess Road as ‘Siddaramaiah Arogya Marga’: Former Mayor cites 1921 map as proof
Mysuru: Even as Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner Ashaad-Ur-Rahman Shariff clarified to a Congress delegation yesterday that no official record or Gazette notification identifying ‘Princess Road’ (KRS Road, now proposed to be renamed as Siddaramaiah Aarogya Marga,) former city Mayor Sandesh Swamy produced a map as evidence to assert that the road was indeed named ‘Princess Road.’
Presenting this proof, Sandesh Swamy urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to intervene and put an end to the contentious issue of renaming the road after him.
At a press conference yesterday, Swamy displayed the map, stating that road had been officially named ‘Princess Road’ in 1921 by the then City Improvement Trust Board (CITB), which later became the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA).
Sandesh Swamy remarked that the ongoing controversy surrounding the renaming of KRS Road as ‘Siddaramaiah Aarogya Marga’ might have caused unnecessary embarrassment to the Chief Minister, who hails from the Mysuru district.
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