After Allahabad And Faizabad, Aligarh In Line For A Name Change

New Delhi:

After Allahabad, one other outstanding metropolis in Uttar Pradesh could also be watching a reputation change. The Aligarh Municipal Company has unanimously handed a proposal to alter town’s title to Harigarh. The proposal was offered by Mayor Prashant Singhal in a gathering yesterday and was supported by all councillors.

If the Uttar Pradesh authorities greenlights the proposal to rename Aligarh, it’ll add to the rising tally of locations renamed within the BJP-ruled state. Probably the most high-profile latest examples is the renaming of Allahabad to Prayagraj in January 2019.

“In a gathering yesterday, a proposal was offered to alter the title of Aligarh to Harigarh. All councillors unanimously supported this. Now, this proposal will probably be despatched to the administration. I hope that the administration will take cognizance of this and fulfill our demand to alter the title of Aligarh to Harigarh…This demand has been being raised for a very long time,” Aligarh mayor Prashant Singhal mentioned, as quoted by information company ANI.

A state authorities can change the title of any metropolis or space throughout the state. After a municipal physique unanimously approves a proposed title change decision, it’ll write to the state authorities. The decision will then be despatched by the state authorities to the Ministry of House Affairs for approval. If the ministry and different related businesses approve the decision, the state authorities can formally change the title.

A proposal to rename Aligarh to Harigarh was cleared by a zila panchayat assembly in 2021 and despatched to UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. In 2019, Chief Minister Adityanath indicated that his authorities will sustain with its spree of renaming locations throughout the state.

“We did what we felt was good. We renamed Mughal Sarai as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Nagar, Allahabad as Prayagraj and Faizabad district as Ayodhya district. The place there’s a want, the federal government will take the steps required,” Yogi Adityanath had mentioned.

Following the title modifications of Faizabad district and Allahabad, members of the ruling BJP have, over time, demanded that different cities be renamed as effectively. An Agra lawmaker had proposed that Agra be renamed Agravan or Agarwal, whereas one other urged that Muzaffarnagar be renamed Laxmi Nagar.

Since coming to energy in March 2017, the Yogi Adityanath authorities has renamed many tasks and schemes, together with the Purvanchal Expressway, which was initiated by the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Celebration (SP) authorities.

The SP authorities named the ambulance service the Samajwadi Ambulance Swasthya Sewa. The Yogi Adityanath authorities renamed the service, eradicating the prefix “Samajwadi” and changing it with “Mukhya Mantri” within the authorities’s pension scheme.