A proposal to rename the Miyanganj village panchayat in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh as Mayaganj has been sent to the state government following a resolution passed by the rural body.

District magistrate Ravindra Kumar on Thursday said he had forwarded the proposal to the additional chief secretary, panchayati raj, and a decision would be taken “at the government level”.

Asked whether the block will also be renamed, the DM said currently only a proposal to rechristen the village panchayat had been sent to the government. “When the name of the panchayat is changed, the name of the block will also change,” he said.

The DM has referred to a letter of BJP MLA Bamba Lal Diwakar demanding the renaming of the panchayat.

The MLA had also claimed at a rally during the 2017 Assembly polls that Yogi Adityanath had promised to rename the panchayat.

The name-change resolution was passed at an open meeting of the village panchayat on August 16 under the chairmanship of village head Nagma.

The state government has already received proposals to rename Aligarh as Harigarh, Firozabad as Chandra Nagar and Mainpuri as Mayan Nagar.

Deoband’s BJP MLA Brijesh Singh has demanded renaming of the place as Devvrand.

Earlier, the Uttar Pradesh government had renamed Faizabad as Ayodhya, Allahabad as Prayagraj and Mugalsarai as Deen Dayal Upadhyay Nagar. It recently renamed the Jhansi railway station after Rani Laxmi Bai.

The Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls are due next year.