" It was the demands of the saints and other people of Allahabad to change the name to its old historic one, which has been accepted by the government before the coming Kumbh Mela to be held early next year,"he said.Mr Singh too sometime back had written to State governor Ram Naik to consider the change of the name of Allahabad to Prayag.
The minister also ridiculed the act of the opposition for opposing the change of the name of Allahabad." They are just doing politics but we have done it to honour the lost religious dignity of the old city which was known as Prayagraj in the history," he added.(UNI)