Gurgaon and Gurugram always coexisted

Metaphorically, nothing has changed, nothing will change but for chatterati, who find Gurugram “unacceptable”.

Gurgaon has been an aspiring city for the aspirational people.  The present generation, who are well in their 20s and late 30s, perceive Gurgaon as a future city.

Not long ago, a motley group of villages, dominated by Jat and Gujjars, used to take pride in roaming on the roads with buffalo and their cows! 

It will not be an overstatement that it took hard work of thousands of Non-Haryanvis, who brought a semblance of civilisation. How come somebody like Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar pushes a millennium city 5000 years back? Gurgaon to Gurugram!  Overnight, Gurgaon becomes Gurugram. 

How come somebody like Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar pushes a millennium city 5000 years back? Gurgaon to Gurugram!  Overnight, Gurgaon becomes Gurugram. 

Gurgaon to Gurugram!  A village, where the legendary guru Dronachaya used to teach martial arts to the pandava and the Kauravas. 

There also existed poor "Eklavya", who could not afford a royal teacher and lost his thumb finger in Guru Dakshina for surreptitiously  learning the arts of archery from Guru Drone. Eklavya must be from this very Gurugram area only.

Metaphorically, nothing has changed, nothing will change but for chatterati, who find it “unacceptable”.

Gurgaon or Gurugram is almost same but what is being questioned here is the motive behind this name change. Was there a hue and cry for the name change?

Was there any dharna or demonstration to change the name in last one year? 

Gurgaon saw phenomenal growth when Om Prakash Chautala was the chief minister. Companies like DLF made fortunes.

Big companies purchased land from gullible farmers at a throwaway price and the government sitting in Chandigarh brought Change of Land Use (CLU).  What exchanged in between was dirty black money. 

Big sharks parked their unaccounted, ill-gotten money. During Bhupinder Singh Hooda government, it was done with much perfection.

The glittering Gurgaon is the by-product of unprecedented growth of real estate in, as recent as, last fifteen years. 

Aptly modelled on Bangalore and Hyderabad IT revolution, Gurgaon gives a feel of a cosmopolitan city. More so for the people who settled there and made Gurgaon what is this today.

 Equipped with swanky malls, all well-known eateries, all IT brands present there, Gurgaon was an aspiring city for aspiring families. 

But if one sees what is behind the facade, one would realise that the more Gurgaon wanted to change, it remained the same.

Gurgaon became an advanced city for go-getters, who earned in millions, who partied in 5 star and 7 star hotels.

For people, who were the original inhabitants, things did not change much. Process of urbanisation engulfed the beauty of this area.

The quick money came and went. Those who invested money wisely, survived, those who remain invested, prospered. 

Otherwise, one will find stories of farmers, who sold their lands and spent their money on SUVs and ultimately lost everything.

Are we talking on behalf of those Jat and Gujjars or media and opposition are just bothered about the Richie rich?

We know, what happened in Haryana during Jat reservation stir. The model of development came to a screeching halt. Division between haves and have not become more pronounced.

Khattar Govt recently held investors summit in Gurgaon, in the backdrop of violent jet agitation, he could manage to fetch MOU worth Rs 6 lakh crores.

Gurgaon proved to be saving grace for the BJP government while the new kid on the block, Rohtak failed Haryana.

With the rate, urbanisation is taking place in the NCR; Khattar government must focus on making Gurgaon safe, local transport people friendly, and police more polite. Gurgaon and Gurugram have always existed and it will.

To justify the historical mandate, Khattar government should focus on real issued like the generation of jobs, bringing social cohesiveness among thirty six caste)