A proposal to rename Dehradun’s Jolly Grant airport after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was passed on Saturday during an airport advisory committee meeting chaired by Haridwar MP and former Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.

The suggestion to rename Uttarakhand’s biggest airport came from Rajeev Talwar, an advisory committee member.

Significantly, in 2018, the state cabinet had also passed a resolution to rename Doon airport after the former PM. This came after the Harish Rawat government proposed to rename the airport after Adi Shankaracharya in 2014.