Oh damn, looks like Yogi Adityanath has some competition when it comes to being known as the person renaming stuff. How will the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister defend his title? We'll just have to wait and see.

But for now, a new renaming king has emerged and it is Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani. 

He's all over the news and the internet right now because with so much going on in the world, he's just concerned about one thing, actually, one particular fruit right now.

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The state government of Gujarat has decided to go after the poor little dragon fruit and change its name to something that may or may not be counted as propaganda. 

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The new name of dragon fruit is Kamalam because it resembles a lotus. 

Hmm, did anyone else actually think that dragon fruit was called that because it looked like a dragon? I'm confused. 

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What does the lotus represent? I can't seem to remember, someone, help me out. 

People, of course, had a lot to say, unsurprisingly, and in a very hilarious twist of events, the humble banana started trending on Twitter soon enough because well, a banana resembles, uh, I'm going to let everyone figure that one out themselves.

As the outer shape of the banana fruit resembles a........ , hence Banana Fruit shall be renamed as '...... ': pic.twitter.com/2Nca6jgQbw

— Nitish Bhardwaj (@Hello_nicks) January 19, 2021

Probably will happen soon.

Waiting for the day when government will fine us if we call it dragon fruit

— Abhijit 🤚 (@Abhijit14683348) January 20, 2021

Bananas would like to be excluded from this narrative.

Gujarat CM renamed Dragon fruit as Kamalam cz it looks like lotus.

Banana be like: pic.twitter.com/Rf9GdswLIj

— Aarohi Tripathy 🇮🇳 (@aarohi_vns) January 20, 2021

The more you know.

You should because the actual name of this fruit is pitahaya from language spoken by aboriginals in mexico the fruit is originally from central America. It was given name Dragon Fruit sometime in 1960s and no one objected.

— ~ Amit (@amit2wit) January 19, 2021

Exactly.

Asli Development to ise bolte hain ️
Kahan school hospital banane me lage ho

— Rahul Tahiliani (@Rahultahiliani9) January 19, 2021

This is hilarious.

Fruit Strike on the Dragon ! The sheer suddenness of the move! The fact that there was no warning! Thank you @vijayrupanibjp for sending a strong message to the Chinese!

- Andhbhakt https://t.co/dPBYpwhmVj

— Aneesh | अनीष 🇮🇳 (@Xperian_) January 20, 2021

One word is enough.

Bruh https://t.co/nEV3d0t5Rm

— Vir Das (@thevirdas) January 20, 2021

Asking the important questions.

Nobody falls for your diversionary tactics anymore! Let’s talk about why China occupied more than 1000 sq kms of our land and have built more than 100 houses on our land! https://t.co/F8z1gH3mWN

— Shama Mohamed (@drshamamohd) January 20, 2021

Legends only.

Kids (Modi) - Renames Congress Govt Schemes
Adults (Adityanath) - Renames Cities
Legends (Rupani) - Renames Fruits

🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/voAVBTEHT7

— Kapil (@kapsology) January 20, 2021

Hmm.

#BJP changes its symbol from lotus to dragon fruit in deference to the dragon and the name change already done. https://t.co/GTjlsZYv0F

— Karthikeyan (@VRLK11) January 20, 2021

...Okay.

Good initiative, I would recommend the government to declare it as our national fruit too. And thus we can lead our country to further progress and glory
Come on da maheshe https://t.co/qiL5PP00wq

— nɒiviV (@to_fly_to_live) January 20, 2021

Yep.

Looks more like a Fireball (Aag ka Gola)

— Kuldeep More (@kuldeepmore99) January 20, 2021

Oh, definitely.

Biggest strike on China. This time China will surrender for sure.

— Shrinivas Karkala (@s_karkala) January 20, 2021

No taste, only Vikas.

vikaasss bhayio aur behano

— surjeetss (@surjeetss3) January 20, 2021

Uhh.

Wondering if they are planning to rename Banana and Oranges as well based on “Outer shape of the fruit” 🤣🤣🤦🏽‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/uAeF98POQy

— Rishi Shrivastava (@rishi_s01) January 20, 2021

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