Uttar Pradesh Announces Bhadohi Renaming as Dalit Outreach Campaign Begins

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath pledged to restore the name Sant Ravidas Nagar on the same day his party launched a seven-month voter mobilization effort targeting Scheduled Caste communities.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced on Wednesday that the carpet-weaving district of Bhadohi will be renamed Sant Ravidas Nagar, though the state government has yet to complete the administrative formalities required to make the change official [1]. The declaration coincided precisely with the launch of the Shri Guru Ravidas Maharaj Samrasta Sankalp Abhiyan, a seven-month political campaign timed to the 650th birth anniversary of the medieval poet-saint and aimed at consolidating support among Dalit voters across the state [3]. While the chief minister framed the renaming as a unifying gesture honoring social reformers, the proposal arrives as his administration enforces strict bureaucratic deadlines elsewhere in the same district, disqualifying 53 schools from serving as examination centers just one day after the naming announcement [2].

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