Overview

• The Bhopal Municipal Corporation passed a resolution in June to rename Hamidia Hospital, Hamidia College and Hamidia School and forwarded the proposal to the municipal commissioner.
• Chief Minister Mohan Yadav gave principal agreement in early August, repeating allegations that Nawab Hamidullah Khan sought to merge Bhopal with Pakistan and held funds in a Pakistani bank.
• The proposal now awaits a formal decision by the Madhya Pradesh government and has not yet identified replacement names for the three institutions.
• Opposition councillors and historian Shahnawaz Khan have filed petitions in the Madhya Pradesh High Court, arguing the move misrepresents Nawab Hamidullah’s post-accession legacy and distorts local history.
• The push to remove ‘Hamidia’ follows a broader state-led campaign that has already renamed railway stations and villages under ideological and political imperatives.