Agartala: Karl Marx may have his sweet revenge, after all.

Turns out that the BJP-led government's renaming revolution in Agartala has a spelling mistake.

When Marx Engels Sarani, the road leading to the chief minister's residence, was rechristened, the government spelt the new name as "Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Lane".

But the late Jan Sangh leader the government of chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb wants to honour had spelt his name as "Syama Prasad Mookerjee".

Expert help was available but the state administration did not appear to have made use of it. Tripura governor Tathagata Roy had authored a biography on Mookerjee, titled The Life and Times of Syama Prasad Mookerjee.

Evidently, the self-styled devotees of Mookerjee in the Tripura administration do not appear to have seen the book.

Asked, governor Roy, who is in Calcutta now for eye treatment, told The Telegraph that his book had the correct spelling and the plaque "should spell Syama Prasad Mookerjee as he himself used to write it".

If any error has been committed, he will tell the government to look into it and correct it after he returns, the governor added. Cabinet spokesperson Pranajit Singha Roy said: "If any error has been committed, it will surely be corrected."