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Thursday, October 18th, 2018

 

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to rename Allahabad as ‘Prayagraj’

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UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s announcement of changing the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj has drawn protests from the Congress and the Samajwadi Party. While receiving mixed reaction from intellectuals, teachers, literary persons, lawyers and politicians in the Sangam city. While the Congress has said that the change would diminish the importance that Allahabad had in the country’s freedom movement. And it does not make sense. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav Monday alleged that Adityanath government’s proposed move was another example of its trait for “renaming”. Today’s rulers were tryingRead More