LUCKNOW: Close on the heels of renaming the iconic Mughalsarai railway station after Bharatiya Jana Sangh cofounder Deendayal Upadhyay, the Yogi Adityanath government has approached the Centre for its approval to rename three airports—those in Bareilly, Agra and Kanpur.

Of these, the Agra airport is also proposed to be named after Updahyaya. The Bareilly airport is proposed to be named ‘Nath Nagri’ airport. Nath Nagri is believed to be an ancient name of the city for its history of having ardent worshippers of Lord Shiva—a feature closely associated with the Nath sect, to which Yogi belongs. Kanpur’s Chakeri airport is proposed to be named after freedom fighter Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi .

“We have reached out to the Centre to get the airports renamed,” UP civil aviation minister Nand Gopal Nandi said

