Did Bengal rename a road to settle scores with … the wrong Muslim?

Streets are renamed all the time. It's an easier show of purpose than actually fixing things — potholes and streetlights may take years, but a new name can always be a bureaucratic sprint.

So, Kolkata Municipal Corporation deciding to rename Suhrawardy Avenue, an important thoroughfare which runs through a busy part of the city, was not all that strange.
"For decades, a major artery of our City bore the name of someone who wilfully misused state power as a weapon, orchestrating the massacre of innocent citizens for sheer political gain," West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari posted in praise of junking the old name. Renaming it after Gopal Mukherjee (a community leader said to have organised Hindu self-defence during the 1946 Calcutta riots), he added, was "historical justice".