Aligarh becomes Harigarh? Municipal Corporation passed resolution

Aligarh is set to join the cities whose names have been changed in the country. The Municipal Corporation of the city has unanimously passed the resolution to change the name of Aligarh to Harigarh.

Talks about changing the name of the city were in the air for a long time but no signs of the change were visible. Now the civic body has passed the name and has further sent it for approval from the state government.

According to reports, Aligarh Zila Panchayat passed a resolution in 2021 to change the name of Aligarh to Harigarh. People have been demanding the change of names for several decades, but the demand was never fulfilled. It is said that the name of Aligarh was given by the Mughal empire before which it was named Harigarh.

Join the list of cities

If the name of Aligarh is changed to Harigarh, then it will be added to the list of other cities in Uttar Pradesh whose names are changed. The name of Allahabad has been changed to Praygraj. Apart from it, Mughal Sarai was changed to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Nagar and the name of Faizabad was changed to Ayodhya.

"In a meeting yesterday, a proposal was presented to change the name of Aligarh to Harigarh. All councilors unanimously supported this. Now, this proposal will be sent to the administration. I hope that the administration will take cognizance of this and fulfill our demand to change the name of Aligarh to Harigarh...This demand has been being raised for a long time...," said the mayor of Aligarh.

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