UP govt to rename Faizabad railway junction as Ayodhya Cantt

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to rename the Faizabad railway station, a tweet from the office of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said.

The station will now be called the Ayodhya Cantt railway station, the tweet said, adding that the decision was taken by the CM Adityanath

"Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has taken the decision to rename Faizabad railway junction as Ayodhya Cantt," the CMO tweeted on Saturday.


Earlier in 2018, the Yogi Adityanath government had renamed Faizabad as Ayodhya.

The BJP government had also changed the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj and Mughalsarai railway junction as Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay junction.