This space has highlighted the enervating war of words, protests, strikes and dharnas over naming of infrastructure projects.

Citizens have been snared so often in the past over naming battles. They have had to take alternate routes to certain destinations to avoid crowds and traffic disruption. At times, they have been caught up unawares in a melee as different groups fight over some new infra which should be named after this one, or somebody else would say his party leader. At other times, they have been left waiting as a much-needed facility, a bus station or garden for instance, is not being opened because different political dispensations at the local level are bickering over what it should be named and who it should be named after. Sometimes this deadlock goes on for months after which they are shamed into opening the facility or one side surrenders in a game of who blinks first.