Allahabad is renamed as Prayagraj and Twitter can't stop talking about it!

Allahabad is renamed as Prayagraj and Twitter has been vocal about its feelings. Brace yourselves Allahabad Prayagraj tweets are here. 

After UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath instigated the idea during his visit, Uttar Pradesh government approved the proposal after ‘some’ debate .

While political parties are using it to throw shots at each other. The general population is filled with mixed critiques. Some say changing the name wouldn’t solve the existing problems (FACTS), while some say Prayagraj was the name of the city originally and was changed by the then ruler Akbar.

Also Read: Climate is changing, not for the better

For whatever reasons, the renaming wouldn’t make a positive impact but it wouldn’t make a negative impact either apart from the hassles the civilians have to go through due to this action.

Peeps have a few things to say.

Changing the name from Allahabad to #Prayagraj is like calling Akshay Kumar Hari Om Bhatia again.



Waiting to see Akshay Kumar announce this to the public. pic.twitter.com/DI6rJuIUXX

— BakChod (@bakchod__) October 16, 2018

Gosh, I was chasing wrong priorities! May be I should change my name to Amitabh Bachchan! ?



That might get me fame, money, power, & success!#Prayagraj

— #Varun Verma ☁️ (@iVarunVerma) October 16, 2018

Modi Ji : Rupee is falling continuously, what should we do to fix it?



Yogi : Rupee Ka naam badal kar Kuwaiti Dinar rakh do#Prayagraj

— Siona Gogoi (@AtomicBlow) October 15, 2018

#Prayagraj

Skillset of dumb politicians - renaming places

— Kajal Soni (@KajalSo74730218) October 15, 2018

Prayaga existed for 1000s of years before Mughals invaded India from Uzbekistan. Rig Veda has Yadu, Druhyu, Puru, Anu & Turvasa tribes. Father of these tribes' founders was Yayati.



Yayati was from #Prayagraj. He conquered Sapta Sindhu.



Restoring an ancient name is NOT renaming.

— Kiran Kumar S (@KiranKS) October 16, 2018

#Prayagraj



I don't understand why so-called modern society has problem to connect with our own culture.



The name Prayaraj change by Akbar, a intruder and devil.



We should change the name to all cities so we try to related with our golden era.

— Arun (@arun2twitt) October 16, 2018

Changing the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj could may be the only achievement of Yogi Adityanath.



You thought, he would really govern and run a state? #Allahabad #Prayagraj

— Uzair Hasan Rizvi (@RizviUzair) October 16, 2018

I m sure once we r done renaming all places to thr Original Hindu names all these places will bcom-

Safe havens for women & children

Agriculture & small Industries will flourish

People will stop throwing garbage



Cant wait for tht magic to start happening#Allahabad to #Prayagraj https://t.co/TwCSiFle2s

— Saqib Khawaja ?? ثاقب ?? (@Saqibkhawaja_) October 16, 2018

Lately I have traveled to #Allahabad frequently. The city is in shambles, desperately needs better roads and infrastructure especially given the fact that the #MahaKumbh is barely 3 months away. Shouldn’t that be priority over name changes? #Prayagraj @myogiadityanath

— Supriya Shrinate (@SupriyaShrinate) October 16, 2018

Apart from scoring political brownie points, let us not forget that changing names of cities leads to massive (unnecessary) expenses.



Just think of the signboards on highways which currently read Allahabad that'll need to be changed to #Prayagraj.

— Meghnad (@Memeghnad) October 16, 2018

There will be a morning when Sonia Gandhi ji and Rahul Gandhi will wake up only to hear that Yogi Adityanath has also changed the name of Indian National Congress. #Prayagraj

— Paresh Rawal (@Babu_Bhaiyaa) October 16, 2018

#Allahabad name changed to #Prayagraj



Ahmedabad & Hyderabad very worried.

— Atul Khatri (@one_by_two) October 16, 2018

Allahabad(oops), Prayagraj is amidst a lot of problems like deteriorating air quality, issues in hostels owned by various trusts and universities, outages of cellular networks, weak infrastructure and more. While the Uttar Pradesh government is at changing things, they should probably change these situations too.