Overview

• Speaking at a Hindu Gaurav Diwas ceremony, Keshav Prasad Maurya urged that Aligarh be renamed to Harigarh.
• He invoked recent precedents, citing Faizabad’s renaming to Ayodhya, Allahabad to Prayagraj, and Shahjahanpur’s Jalalabad to Parshurampuri.
• He said he wishes former chief minister Kalyan Singh to be conferred the Bharat Ratna.
• Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Jitin Prasada shared the stage at the event.
• He criticized the Samajwadi Party’s PDA pitch and vowed to “uproot” the party’s cycle symbol and “send it to Saifai,” while no official renaming decision was announced.