Chandigarh airport will be renamed after Bhagat Singh as a tribute to the great freedom fighter on the 115th birth anniversary. Recently, Prime Minister Modi on his monthly radio programme, Mann Ki Baat announced changing the name of the airport.
Modi said that September 28 is an important day of ‘Amrit Mahotsav’ as it is the birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh.
“Just before the birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh, an important decision has been taken as a tribute to him. It has been decided that the Chandigarh airport will now be named after Shaheed Bhagat Singh. It had been in waiting for a long time,” Modi said.
He congratulated the people of Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana, and the rest of the country for this decision.
