Do you think Akhilesh has done the right work by renaming UP districts?

GN Bureau | July 24, 2012



The Uttar Pradesh cabinet has approved a proposal to rename eight districts whose names were changed during former chief minister Mayawati's tenure. Although the UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav drew much flak from the BSP supremo for his move, he has only given the districts their old names. While Mayawati says Akhilesh is resorting to cheap popularity tactics, she has not specified if her own move to give the districts new names was driven by any other motive than this.

Despite change of names, people in the state still identify those places with their original names than the ones given during Mayawati’s regime. Retaining original names gives people a sense of connect. But BSP supremo adds that it is an insult to dalit icons.

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