In order to further alienate Indian Muslims, the BJP government has decided that the Feroz Shah Kotla cricket stadium will be renamed after India's former finance minister Arun Jaitley, who died on August 24. According to Indian media reports, the decision was taken to honour Jaitley who served as Delhi and District Cricket Association's president from 1999 to 2013.

The renaming of Indian capital's stadium will be done on September 12. The Feroz Shah Kotla or Kotla was a fortress built by Sultan Feroz Shah Tughlaq. He was a Turkic Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388.

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