Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 09:42am on 07 Nov 2023,Tuesday India
The Aligarh Municipal Corporation has unanimously passed a proposal to rename the Uttar Pradesh city to Harigarh. If approved by the state government, it will join the growing list of places renamed under BJP rule, including Allahabad to Prayagraj and Faizabad district to Ayodhya. Aligarh mayor Prashant Singhal said the longstanding demand to rename Aligarh was unanimously supported by all councillors in a meeting. The proposal will now be sent to the state administration. In 2019, CM Yogi Adityanath indicated his government will continue renaming places, having already changed names like Mughal Sarai to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Nagar. The move comes after previous demands by BJP members to rename other UP cities like Agra and Muzaffarnagar.
