Shiv Sena wants Maharashtra CM Fadnavis to rename Aurangabad, Osmanabad  

After the Uttar Pradesh government’s decided to rename Allahabad as Prayagaraj and Faizabad as Ayodhya, the Shiv Sena on Thursday, November 8, pressurised the Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and posed a question as when the BJP led state government will rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut posted on Twitter, “Yogi Adityanath has renamed Allahabad and Faizabad to Pragyaraj and Ayodhya. When will CM Devendra Fadnavis rename Aurangabad to Sambhaji Nagar and Osmanabad to Dharashiv Nagar?”

The demand of renaming across states has gained momentum since the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government renamed Allahabad as Prayagaraj and Faizabad as Ayodhya.

Taking an example from the UP government, the Gujarat led BJP government has expressed its interest in renaming Ahmedabad as Karnavati. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Thursday said the Gujarat government is looking into the legal aspects to take concrete steps in renaming Ahmedabad as Karnavati.

“We are contemplating changing the name of Ahmedabad to Karnavati, the talks of which have been going on since a long time. Concrete steps will be taken after looking at it from legal and all other angles. We will think about it in the time to come,” said Rupani.

The BJP-led government in Himachal Pradesh, on the other hand, is considering a proposal to rename the popular hill station to Shyamala. The city purportedly derives its name from Shyamala Devi, an avatar of goddess Kali, but was changed by the Britishers to Shimla.

Meanwhile, the Mamata Banerjee government’s move to rename West Bengal as “Bangla” hit a roadblock after the Union Home Ministry wrote to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), sharing concerns that the new name may sound like Bangladesh, and it would be difficult to differentiate the two at international forums, officials said.