After Allahabad was rechristened as Prayagraj and Faizabad as Ayodhya, the process has been initiated to rename Aligarh and Mainpuri districts too.

A resolution to change the names of these two districts has been passed in the meetings of the Aligarh and Mainpuri district panchayats. The proposal to rename Mainpuri as Mayan Nagar and Aligarh as Harigarh was tabled in the meeting of the District Panchayat Board on Monday.  The Houses passed the motion by voice vote.  Now the proposals will be sent to the government level. After that, there is a provision to take further action from there itself.

Around a fortnight ago, the district panchayat had passed a resolution to rename Firozabad as Chandra Nagar. The meeting of the district panchayat in Mainpuri was held under the chairmanship of president Archana Bhadauria in the Collectorate auditorium.  Member Yogendra Pratap moved a proposal to name Mainpuri as Mayan Nagar and it was accepted after a discussion, sources said.

In the first meeting of the District Panchayat Board in Aligarh, Bijauli block chief Umesh Yadav and Atrauli block chief Kehri Singh proposed that earlier the name of the district was Harigarh.  In such a situation, a proposal to rename Aligarh as Harigarh should be passed by the House and sent to the government.

District panchayat president Vijay Singh said that the Akhil Bharatiya Kshatriya Mahasabha has also given a memorandum to rename Aligarh as Harigarh. 

Aligarh district panchayat president Vijay Singh said the proposal to rename Aligarh as Harigarh has been unanimously accepted.  In that meeting, it was also decided to name the Dhanipur mini-airport after former CM of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh.