Atal Bihari Vajpayee Park Is Now “Coconut Park”, Claims BJP. Bihar Denies

Patna: 

A controversy erupted in Bihar on Monday when the opposition BJP alleged that the state government was renaming a park in the capital city, named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a charge promptly denied by the department concerned.

The state department for environment and forestry asserted in a statement that “reports in a section of the media about Atal Bihari Vajpayee Park being renamed as Coconut Park were not true”.

It was also clarified that there was a park named after the late leader elsewhere in the city and the one in question bore the name ‘Coconut Park’ ever since it was handed over to the department of environment and forestry “by the Road Construction department, along with all other parks in Patna, in November, 2022