No, CM Yogi has not asked President to rename Agra-Lucknow Expressway

A news is going round on social media claiming that Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, plans to rename the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in honour of Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav. On October 13, 2022, a Twitter user by the name of Prachi Yadav posted a screenshot of Prajatantra TV news report in which it was reported that Yogi Adityanath has requested the President to rename the Agra-Lucknow Expressway to “Dharti Putra Mulayam Singh Yadav.” Let’s verify the claim:

Fact Check

In our research, using the keyword search “CM yogi requested to rename Agra-Express Highway to honour Mulayam Singh Yadav”, we came across a few media reports. According to one of the report by Times Now on this matter, it states that in a letter sent to President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday, Samajwadi party leader IP Singh demanded that party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, who passed away on Monday, should be honoured with the nation’s highest civilian honour, “Bharat Ratna.”

Further, we found a tweet from IP Singh in which he demanded that Mulayam Singh should be given the “Bharat Ratna,” the nation’s highest civilian honour, immediately. He simultaneously asked CM Yogi Adityanath that Agra-Lucknow Expressway should be renamed as “Dhartiputra Mulayam Singh Yadav” Expressway. A letter that was written by him to the president is also attached in a tweet.

Our research revealed that the Samajwadi Party’s IP Singh, not Yogi Adityanath, was the one who wrote to the president asking for the Bharat Ratna award and the renaming of the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Mulayam Singh’s honour.

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