After the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister has started referring to the district of Azamgarh as ‘Aryamgarh’ in many of his speeches, there are now speculations rife that the district’s name could be changed just like some other prominent names.
Following the laying of the foundation of a new university in Azamgarh, the chief minister said on Saturday that this will make the district ‘Aryamgarh’ in the true sense. “This is the same Azamgarh whose youth could not get a hotel room or guest anywhere in India before 2014 and 2017,” he said.
Attacking the Samajwadi Party leadership at a rally, he said that Azamgarh may have given two former chief ministers and also sent them to the Parliament, but it is also because of them that the image of Azamgarh has been tarnished.
After Adityanath’s government was formed in 2017, Allahabad and Faizabad were renamed as Prayagraj and Ayodhya respectively.
Slamming the government, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said that the BJP government has ‘only changed names and colours in the past four and half years’. The public will now change the government, he told reporters in Gorakhpur.
Azamgarh happens to be the Lok Sabha constituency of Akhilesh Yadav. The chief minister, while accusing the SP leadership of pursuing dynastic politics, also asked the people if they saw their MP during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Only when the election is round the corner, are there some activities,” he said.
The BJP firebrand leader also recalled that he was attacked in Azamgarh in 2007
