Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday introduced that Bhadohi district has now been renamed Sant Ravidas Nagar Bhadohi.
Asserting the brand new identify throughout a programme held within the district, Adityanath stated, “Now our Bhadohi district will likely be known as Sant Ravidas Nagar Bhadohi.”
Throughout his go to to the district, the chief minister inaugurated and laid basis stones for 112 initiatives price over ₹1,340 crore.
“On the event of Guru Purnima, the federal government had stated Bhadohi district, famend for its carpet business, can be recognized by the identify of Satguru Ravidas Maharaj, a saint who united society by way of his non secular devotion,” Adityanath stated.
He added that it’s “deeply gratifying” that Sant Ravidas’s 600-year-old imaginative and prescient, through which everybody had meals and benefited from welfare schemes with out discrimination, has been realised.
Reciting a couplet by Sant Ravidas, Yogi stated, “Sant Ravidas Maharaj as soon as stated ‘aisa chahu raj foremost jahan saban ko mile anna, chhoto bado sab mil basai, Ravidas raje prasanna’. (I want such a kingdom the place everybody receives meals; the place excessive and low dwell as equals, and Ravidas stays content material). Sant Ravidas Ji dreamed of such a rule 600 years in the past.”
“At current, it feels nice when 80 crore folks get free rations beneath the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with none discrimination,” he stated, including, “Renaming Bhadohi turns into related now.”
Bhadohi was part of Varanasi district earlier than it turned the sixty fifth district of the state on June 30, 1994.
In 1997, it was renamed Sant Ravidas Nagar by the Mayawati-led authorities. The BJP authorities beneath Ram Prakash Gupta renamed it as Sant Ravidas Nagar Bhadohi in November 1999. In December 2014, the Akhilesh Yadav-led authorities formally modified its identify again to Bhadohi.
On July 29 this 12 months, Adityanath introduced that the Bhadohi district would as soon as once more be renamed Sant Ravidas Nagar, because the ruling BJP kicked off a Dalit outreach initiative from the prime minister’s constituency, Varanasi.
In June, the chief minister introduced renaming Fazil Nagar city in Kushinagar as Pawagarh in honour of Lord Mahavir.
In 2018, the Uttar Pradesh authorities had renamed Allahabad as Prayagraj and Faizabad district as Ayodhya.
The federal government additionally renamed the Mughalsarai railway station as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction in August 2018.
In October 2025, Adityanath had stated that the federal government would transfer a proposal to rename the Mustafabad village in Lakhimpur Kheri as ‘Kabirdham’ to revive the world’s historic and cultural identification linked to Sant Kabir.
In April this 12 months, Adityanath introduced that Miyanpur village in Lakhimpur Kheri can be renamed Ravindra Nagar in honour of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
In August this 12 months, Aligarh mayor Prashant Singhal stated {that a} proposal to rename town to Harigarh had been despatched to the state authorities for implementation.
Proposals had been additionally made to rename Basti after Maharishi Vashishth.
In August 2025, Ketki Singh, the BJP MLA from Bansdih in Ballia, urged the Centre and the state authorities to rename Ghazipur after Maharishi Gautam.
At Sunday’s occasion, the chief minister additionally stated the Kashi Naresh PG faculty has been given the standing of a college.
“When college students get levels from right here, they’ll get diploma diploma from Kashi Naresh College, Sant Ravidas Nagar,” he added.
Highlighting the event potential provided by Bhadohi’s geographical location, Adityanath stated Sant Ravidas Nagar is located between the holy metropolis of Varanasi and Prayagraj. The area boasts each wealthy heritage and infrastructure improvement pushed by the “double-engine” authorities.
He stated when the choice was made to increase the Ganga Expressway through the Vindhya Expressway, he particularly directed Sant Ravidas Nagar be related to this community.
The chief minister stated the Sant Ravidas Kutiya in Aurai tehsil stays a focus of religion for devotees.
Efforts have been made to combine the Sita Samahit Sthal at Sitamarhi into the Ramayana Circuit, he stated, asserting that funds at the moment are being invested in creating pilgrimage websites, preserving and beautifying the legacy of our ancestors, and honouring folks’s religion.
