<p>Days after the Centre approved the renaming of Aurangabad and Osmanabad, a BJP leader, Gopinath Padalkar, has started a campaign to rename the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra after Ahilyabai Holkar, the Holkar queen of the Maratha-Malwa kingdom.</p>.<p>Last week, the Centre <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/west/now-aurangabad-renamed-sambhajinagar-osmanabad-is-dharashiv-1194655.html" target="_blank">approved the change of name</a> of Aurangabad to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and Osmanabad to Dharashiv. </p>.<p>Padalkar, who is an MLC, made the formal demand again on the first day of the budget session of the Maharashtra legislature. </p>.<p>“It is the demand of supporters of Ahilya Devi Holkar that Ahmednagar should be renamed as Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Nagar,” he said and pleaded with Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis to take a decision accordingly.</p>.<p>“Very soon the name would be changed,” Padalkar told reporters in the Vidhan Bhavan complex. </p>.<p>Ahilyabai Holkar (31 May 1725 – 13 August 1795) was born in Chaundi in Ahmednagar district to a Dhangar family. </p>.<p>Ahilya Bai was a great pioneer and helped build hundreds of temples and dharamshalas throughout India.</p>
<p>Days after the Centre approved the renaming of Aurangabad and Osmanabad, a BJP leader, Gopinath Padalkar, has started a campaign to rename the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra after Ahilyabai Holkar, the Holkar queen of the Maratha-Malwa kingdom.</p>.<p>Last week, the Centre <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/west/now-aurangabad-renamed-sambhajinagar-osmanabad-is-dharashiv-1194655.html" target="_blank">approved the change of name</a> of Aurangabad to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and Osmanabad to Dharashiv. </p>.<p>Padalkar, who is an MLC, made the formal demand again on the first day of the budget session of the Maharashtra legislature. </p>.<p>“It is the demand of supporters of Ahilya Devi Holkar that Ahmednagar should be renamed as Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Nagar,” he said and pleaded with Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis to take a decision accordingly.</p>.<p>“Very soon the name would be changed,” Padalkar told reporters in the Vidhan Bhavan complex. </p>.<p>Ahilyabai Holkar (31 May 1725 – 13 August 1795) was born in Chaundi in Ahmednagar district to a Dhangar family. </p>.<p>Ahilya Bai was a great pioneer and helped build hundreds of temples and dharamshalas throughout India.</p>
