India’s first mangrove park, which has been constructed at Gorai in Mumbai’s western suburbs and has been awaiting opening for nearly a year, is set to be named after former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The move aligns with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) plan to name institutions and public spaces after veteran right-wing leaders following the party’s victory in the civic elections earlier this year. The BJP-led Mahayuti administration of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation had proposed naming a public park after Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, the second chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and a traffic junction after George Fernandes . Fernandes was a socialist trade unionist who later served as the defence minister in the Vajpayee-led NDA government between 1998 and 2004. Senior BJP leader Sanjay Upadhaye, who is also the legislator from Borivali, made the proposal to name Gorai’s mangrove park after Vajpayee.…