Ranchi, July 22 -- BJP has alleged the emergence of a "Name Change Scam" under the Hemant Soren-led government in Jharkhand, accusing the administration of allowing official records related
to name changes to disappear, potentially to shield religious conversions and enable identity fraud.
BJP state spokesperson Pratul Shah Deo said the disappearance of decades-old gazette notifications and registers pertaining to name changes points to gross administrative failure
and a possible deliberate attempt to erase public records.
Shah Deo claimed that until recent years, name change requests in Jharkhand were handled manually, with official registers maintained to track each change. These documents, which serve as key legal identifiers for am...