The Kerala Assembly recently passed a unanimous resolution urging the Centre to rename the state from "Kerala" to "Keralam". This resolution was moved by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on June 24, 2024, and is the second such resolution after a similar one was passed in August 2023. The demand is to amend the state's name in the First Schedule of the Constitution under Article 3, reflecting the name "Keralam," which is the Malayalam name for the state. The resolution also seeks the name change to be recognized in all languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. The move stems from the fact that while the state was formed on November 1, 1956, and is called "Keralam" in Malayalam, the official constitutional name remains "Kerala"—a discrepancy the Assembly wants corrected