Mumbai: Three years after the renaming of the Aurangabad city in Maharashtra, the Central Railway on Saturday said the Aurangabad railway station has been officially renamed as “Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar railway station.”

Its new station code will be `CPSN’, the Central Railway said in a release.

The station falls under the Nanded Division of South Central Railway.

The BJP-led Mahayuti government on October 15 had issued a gazette notification to change the name of the Aurangabad railway station.

The move came nearly three years after the then government headed by Eknath Shinde formally renamed Aurangabad city as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.

The city, previously named for Mughal emperor Aurangzeb , received the new name as a tribute to Chhatrapati Sambhaji, the son of Chhatrapati Sh

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