GORAKHPUR, June 3 -- Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday announced that Fazil Nagar town in Kushinagar district will be renamed Pawagarh in honour of Jain Tirthankar Lord Mahavir.

He also said his government had dealt firmly with miscreants in the state, asserting that those who did not mend their ways through 'boli' (words) were compelled to do so through the 'goli' (bullets).

Addressing a gathering in Kushinagar, where he inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for 272 development projects worth more than Rs.400 crore, he contrasted the state's past image with what he described as its present transformation under the BJP-led governments at the Centre and in UP.

"The earlier governments had made Uttar Pradesh kn...