New Delhi: The Union home ministry has approved a proposal to rename Mughalsarai railway station in Uttar Pradesh after Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Deendayal Upadhyaya. 

As per the approved proposal, the junction will now be rechristened "Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar station'. Upadhyaya was found dead under mysterious circumstances on a railway platform at Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh, in 1968.

The proposal to rename Mughalsarai junction originated from the Yogi Adityanath government in UP. It had sent the file to the ministry of railways for approval, which then forwarded it for home ministry's clearance.

Mughalsarai junction, the fourth busiest railway station in the country, is located on the main Howrah-Delhi Grand Chord line.The renaming move caused uproar in the Rajya Sabha on Friday with several MPs including Samajwadi Party's Naresh Agarwal slamming the Centre for giving its nod. There was a brief adjournment of the House in the first half, after SP members trooped into the well and raised slogans.