New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh. During the program, the PM was accompanied by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
PM Modi also visited the exhibition model of Aligarh node of Uttar Pradesh Defense Industrial Corridor.
With the event in Aligarh, PM Modi formally launched the UP election campaign for the BJP.
PM Modi addressed the huge gathering who participated in the inauguration ceremony. He started his speech by wishing people a Happy Radhastami.
PM Modi said, “Today is a big day for Aligarh, for western Uttar Pradesh. Today is Radhashtami, which makes today’s day even more sacred. Radha is in every particle of Brijbhoomi. That’s why I congratulate the countrymen. Hearty congratulations to the whole nation on the occasion of Radhashtami”.
The PM urged the people to take life lessons from the Jat king. Focusing on the youth, PM Modi said that if they ever feel disappointed then they should remember the determination and sacrifice of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh.
The state government has established the university in the memory and honor of freedom fighter, educationist and social reformer Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh.
The university is being set up in an area spread over 92 acres in the villages of Lodha and Musepur Karim Jarauli in Kol Tehsil of Aligarh. The PMO said that it will provide affiliation to 395 colleges of Aligarh division.
The government’s decision to set up the university after a noted Jat personality is being seen as part of the ruling BJP’s attempt to politically win over the community ahead of crucial assembly elections in the state early next year.
A section of Jats, who live in large numbers in western Uttar Pradesh, seems to be angry with the BJP over farmers’ issues.
The establishment of a Defense Industrial Corridor in Uttar Pradesh was announced by Modi while inaugurating the UP Investors Summit in Lucknow on February 21, 2018. A total of six nodes Aligarh, Agra, Kanpur, Chitrakoot, Jhansi and Lucknow have been planned. Corridor. In the Aligarh node, the land allotment process has been completed, and land has been allotted to 19 firms that will invest Rs 1,245 crore in the node.
Who was Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh?
Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh was an alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and also the chairman of India’s first provisional government-in-exile, established in Kabul on December 1, 1915.
Belonging to the royal family of Mursan, he left his home and family in Aligarh in December 1914 and fled to Germany and lived in exile for almost 33 years as he was wanted by the British authorities.
He returned in 1947 only after India got independence. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Mathura in 1957, contesting as an independent by defeating the then Jana Sangh candidate Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Eminent scholar and political historian Professor Shan Mohammed was quoted by PTI as saying, “Raja Mahendra Pratap is one of the most remarkable figures of India’s independence movement and his commitment to a secular democratic India marks him as a hero of his time. Is.” .
“His commitment to secularism is similar to that of Gandhi and Nehru. He deserves to be fully respected but his legacy must be fully respected,” he said.
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