Lucknow, April 2 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Supremo Mayawati on Tuesday criticized the decision of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami-led Uttarakhand government to change the names of 11 places in various districts of the state, accusing them of "covering up their failures on the basis of hatred and discrimination."

The BSP Supremo hit out at the BJP and Samajwadi Party (SP) alike, highlighting the name changes of various places done by Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh government too.

"Like the SP government of UP, the tendency of BJP governments of Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and UP to change the names of districts, cities and institutions etc. is not governance of the rule of law but a very worrying narrow politics to cover up their failu...