Lucknow, Nov 3: The Railways on Tuesday changed the name of Faizabad Junction Railway Station to Ayodhya Cantt with immediate effect.
Earlier last month, the Uttar Pradesh government had decided to rename the Faizabad railway station.
It is notified for the information of the general public that the name of Faizabad (FD) Railway Station in Lucknow Division of Northern Railway has been changed to Ayodhya Cantt (station code: AYC) with immediate effect, Northern Railway PRO Dipak Kumar said here on Tuesday.
A tweet by the Chief Minister's Office had said Faizabad station will be called the Ayodhya Cantt railway station.
In another tweet, the CMO had said the Centre too has granted its consent to the decision and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given the green signal to issue a notification in this regard.
Earlier in 2018, the UP government had renamed Faizabad district as Ayodhya.
The BJP government had also changed the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj and Mughalsarai railway junction as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay junction.
Opened in 1874, the Faizabad railway station falls under the Lucknow-Varanasi section.
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Nagpur: In a show of support for elected representatives who, according to Hindu groups, fought against the alleged menace of “vote jihad” during the recent Maharashtra Assembly elections, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and Maharashtra Mandir Mahasangh are set to felicitate Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, BJP President and Cabinet Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, and other MLAs.
The grand felicitation ceremony, celebrating the “historic victory of devout Hindu representatives who defeated the menace of vote jihad”, will take place on Thursday evening at the Vidarbha Sahitya Sangh’s auditorium near Jhansi Rani Chowk in Nagpur. The event is titled ‘Government of Hindutva Advocates and the Hindutva of the Government,’ informed Sunil Ghanwat, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh State Coordinator of 'Hindu Janajagruti Samiti' and National Convener of 'Mandir Mahasangh'.
“All Hindutva supporters, patriots, and devotees from Nagpur and Vidarbha are invited to attend the program in large numbers,” the statement reads.
The event will see the participation of Shiv Sena leaders including Deputy CM Eknath Shinde, Ministers Bharat Gogawale, Yogesh Kadam, Ashish Jaiswal; BJP Ministers Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Nitesh Rane, Atul Save, Akash Fundkar, Sanjay Savkare, Pankaj Bhoyar; Shiv Sena MLAs Pradeep Jaiswal, Chandrakant Sonawane, Amol Khatal, Balaji Kinikar; BJP MLAs Mangesh Chavan, Sunil Kamble, Satyajit Deshmukh, Atul Bhatkhalkar, Prataprao Adsar, Mahesh Landge, Suresh Bhole, Shankar Jagtap, Sachin Kalyanshetty, Narayanrao Kuche, Sanjay Kelkar, Kalidas Kolambkar, Subhash Deshmukh, and many others.