PRIME MINISTER, WAKE UP! RENAME THE ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS, SWARAJ AND SHAHEED AS NAMED BY NETAJI AS PRESIDENT OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF FREE INDIA.

Why does Narendra Modi not restore the names SWARAJ and SHAHEED which NETAJI had given to ANDAMAN and NICOBAR ISLANDS, thus earlier named by Imperial Britain and renamed the same by them after erasing the names given by Netaji? These are small but significant steps towards de-Anglicising our nation and restoring her self-pride and dignity. There was a purpose to naming the islands 'Swaraj' and 'Shaheed' and that purpose remains thwarted in independent India. So long as the Congress ruled, it was understandable for Nehru and his ilk had everything to lose through the resurrection of Netaji. But the Congress is now out of power and it is time opportune to render justice to this episode of India's freedom struggle. The establishment of the Provisional Government of Free India in these two southern islands, notorious in India's history as the place of banishment and terrible torture of prisoners (freedom fighters) found guilty of sedition against the British government, is a glorious episode in our struggle for freedom and was the springboard from where freedom eventually came in 1947. Allowing the British names of these islands to continue and, thus, overriding the legacy of Netaji here is to sell our national dignity to the ones that tyrannised us here in the most inhuman manner. The British police used to put metal pins into the nails of the prisoners and drive them in before pulling the nails out in their bid to extract information from the political prisoners who were our brightest jewels, our bravest sons who gave their everything for the freedom of the nation we enjoy today. Shame on us that we allow this status quo on things which no other country in the world would have permitted, for we have become an emasculate lot devoid of feeling for our martyrs who liberated us! And a worse shame on our governments including the present one for its trepidation and undue circumspection on restoring the pride of our nation beyond mere lip-service of salutation to Netaji! We want concrete action and, that too, speedily. Rename the Andaman and Nicobar Islands SWARAJ and SHAHEED if you are a patriot worth your salt, Shree Narendra Modiji. I await the grand happening. It will send a shiver through the nation and our youth will rise up in unison with it singing : 

KADAM KADAM BADHAYE JA,
KHUSHI KA GEET GAYE JA,
YE ZINDAGI HAI KAUM KI,
WOH KAUM PE MITAYE JA.

I solicit your response.