Rename Indira Gandhi International Airport Now!

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

how many jews live in India? Yet they made this effort, bravo!

some people live with dignity, some die for it, some demand it, curse those who compromise it.

raju,

when you book a flight to india, it is listed as indira gandhi intl airport. THe big sign in front of the airport also says this. yes people may call it personally by different names but officially it is Indira gandhi intl airport.

also, sikhs are called sikhs, not hindus by many poeple, but officially in the Indian constitution, sikhs are hindus. We can't ignore OFFICIAL GOVT names and titles forever. we have to make a stand.

When brochures are made for tourists, when non-indians book flights to india, when we read text books etc, the OFFICIAL names are used.

India is a place that is growing, many people go to India for business trips now. They land at INidra airport not a name such as Palam used by the local villagers.

let me put it to you like this:

The majority sikh state in northern India is officially called PUnjab. If tomorow sikhs decide to start unofficially calling it khalistan, would that make it khalistan? Sikhs declared khalistan at akal takhat after sarbat khalsa in the late 80s, so is punjab now called khalistan? No.

so let's not fall into this trap.

peace.

[Raju]

Indira Gandhi is most popular in India for her "71 exploits when she liberated East Pakistan and split it in two. That is why even RSS and others who do not like the Nehru-Gandhi family have a grudging respect for Indira and call her "Ma Durga avatar". She is also jokingly referred to as the only Indian leader with b*lls.

Another of her quirks was the she constantly kept referring to a foreign hand....she always thought that the americans were out to oust her and were conspiring to make her regime a failure. And that somehow dovetails with the general anti-american environment in India.

Many Indians believe that pakistan/ISI etc are just american stooges and the master-brain of global terrorism is CIA/State Dept and Indira is the only one who stood up against them. Though finally they managed to eliminate her through proxies.

So I don't see either a Right or Congress govt in a hurry to remove Indira's name from the International airport, but a pseudo-socialist govt like that in UP if comes to power via a third front govt could take the step of changing the name of IGI airport just to grate the congress.

Finally the airport at Amritsar is being upgraded and it is being made suitable for even landing a A-380, and once that happens never again would you have to land in IGI airport again. Once it is upgraded the Raja Sansi International airport @ Amritsar can be renamed GTB International Airport and you can land amidst the gentle wafting tunes of Sarab Sanjhi Gurbaani @ Amritsar.

Airport upgradation

Crediting the initiation of the service from Amritsar to Capt Singh's efforts, the Union Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel assured that the facilities of the Amritsar airport would be upgraded, while its runway length would also be suitably augmented to meet the requirements of the larger aircrafts. However, this project could be delayed by another six months as the Ministry in consultation with Airport Authority of India (AAI) was preparing a blue print for its renovation keeping in view a long-term perspective due to the possible increase of air traffic in the near future.

Referring to the setting up of a green field airport at Laddowal between Ludhiana and Jalandhar, Mr. Patel said that this project had been cleared by the Union Government and was in the advanced stage of implementation. It would come up on the pattern of green field airports at Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Lucknow. Similarly, the Ministry was considering setting up an international airport at Chandigarh.

Finally there is also a possibility that after privatisation of the delhi and mumbai international airports...they would forthwith be known as Delhi International Airport Ltd and Mumbai International Airport Ltd.

[singh_sandhu]

I agree there are all sorts of dodgy people at the airport, i remember when i went to dehli airport in 1997 i was only 9 and i got lost and some guy starting looking at me in a perverted manner and then started following me!!! @ The worst thing is im a guy well i was a boy then however luckily some canadian guy saved me, im so grateful- i could have been kidnapped.

Yeah, well i'm still alive and looking for you! :lol:

So your the lucha did you have no shame checking out a 9 yr old

V A H E G U R O O

when i say stop the stupid language what part dont u get? ??????

I think the hindus guna start havin hissy fitz 4 chanjin the airport name, but yea it be good 2 hav a neutral name 4 the airport..rather than a murderer indira GUNDHEE