Depy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya backs call for renaming Lucknow
Lucknow: The politics of name change has intensified in UP. BJP MP from Pratapgarh Sangam Lal Gupta wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, demanding that Lucknow be renamed Laxmanpur.
Now UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya has said that the historical name of Lucknow is Lakhanpur. Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has also supported the demand to change the name of Lucknow. He said that it is a good thing if indigenous pride is being increased instead of foreign identity.
On the demand of renaming Lucknow as Laxmanpur or Lakhanpur, Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya said that historically Lucknow was known as Lakhanpur but now it is being known as Lucknow and Laxman ji’s shrine is being built in front of the international airport. Divine idol will be installed.
Meanwhile, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (Subhaspa) chief Omprakash Rajbhar has also made a political move to change his name. Rajbhar has written a letter to CM Yogi Adityanath demanding to rename Ghazipur as ‘Vishwamitranagar’. Let us inform that before this the UP government has changed the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj, Mughalsarai to Deendayal Nagar and Faizabad to Ayodhya.
The discussion of changing the name of Lucknow intensified
Now the discussion about changing the name of the capital Lucknow has intensified. BJP MP Sangam Lal Gupta has written in the letter that now the country has entered the Amrit period, then changing the name of Lucknow, the symbol of slavery and luxury, to Lakhanpur or Laxmanpur, the symbol of India’s glorious cultural heritage, pride, prosperity, dignity and manhood. should do. He has posted this letter on his Twitter handle. Now re-tweeting is happening in support of this.
The MP has written in the letter that according to the local belief, Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, was gifted by Maryada Purushottam Lord Shri Ram to Ayodhya King Shri Laxman ji in Treta Yug. That is why it was named Lakhanpur and Laxmanpur. But later in the 18th century, Nawab Asafuddaula changed its name to Lucknow. Lucknow is running in the same tradition.
He further wrote that in a country rich in glorious cultural heritage, it seems totally unfair to point out slavery to our future generation by telling stories of luxury and wastefulness of the Nawabs of Lucknow even in the Amrit period. Lord Dalhousie acquired Awadh and merged it with the British Empire because of inefficiency and luxurious lifestyle. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah had accepted British suzerainty.
Speculations were also intensified due to CM Yogi’s tweet
A tweet by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath welcoming PM Narendra Modi also fueled speculation about renaming the capital Lucknow. CM Yogi, who arrived to welcome PM Modi, wrote in a tweet that you are heartily welcome to Lucknow, the holy city of Sheshavatar Lord Laxman ji. The tweet was posted along with a photograph of Governor Anandiben Patel welcoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Amausi airport. After this tweet, it is being speculated that Lucknow can be named after Laxman ji.
