‘How Can Mughals Be Heroes’: Yogi Adityanath Renames Agra’s Mughal Museum After Chhatrapati Shivaji

Sumedha Tripathi

UP’s chief minister Yogi Adityanath announced the decision to rename the Mughal Museum being constructed in the city of Agra after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.  

The press statement quoted Yogi Adityanath saying, 

How can Mughals be our heroes? The very name of Shivaji will invoke a feeling of nationalism and self-esteem. 
Deccan Herald

This news was issued to the officers during a meeting that Adiyanath held from his official residence via video link to review Agra division’s development works and the Covid-19 situation. 

Yogi Adityanath – who in his three-year rule has renamed several places including Allahabad (now Prayagraj). 

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