JOIN USIn Amit Shah's presence, Yogi Adityanath hints at changing Azamgarh's name
As the next assembly poll draws to a close, yet another name change seems to be in the offing in Uttar Pradesh. And this time it could be Azamgarh, the Lok Sabha constituency of Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav.
Adityanath dropped the hint while addressing a public meeting at Azamgarh in which union home minister Amit Shah was also present on Saturday.
"Azamgarh had an identity crisis during the previous regimes...the residents of the districts were not given rooms in hotels and inns as the district was famous for harbouring terrorists...we have changed that...now a university is coming up here, it appears that Azamgarh will now certainly become Aryangarh," Adityanath said.
Since Adityanath took over in 2017, the UP government has changed the names of several districts and important places.
The state government recently re-christened Faizabad railway station as Ayodhya Cantt and barely a few days back, Adityanath hinted at changing the name of Badaun district to Vedamau.
The state government had earlier hinted that the names of Sultanpur, Mirzapur, Aligarh, Firozabad and Mainpuri could also be changed. There was also a proposal to change the names of Ghazipur and Basti districts. The state government had earlier rechristened Allahabad as Prayagraj and Faizabad as Ayodhya. There were proposals to rechristen Sultanpur as Kush Bhavanpur, Aligarh as Harigarh, Mainpuri as Mayan Nagar, Firozabad as Chandra Nagar and Mirzapur as Vindhya Dham also.
Besides, the saffron outfits have also demanded to rechristen Agra as Agravan and Muzaffarnagar as Luxmi Nagar. Miyanganj, a town in the state's Unnao district, is also likely to be christened as Mayaganj. There was also a proposal to change the name of Aligarh district to Harigarh. Similarly a proposal to rename Mainpuri district as 'Mayan Nagar' was also sent to the state government.
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