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Two years after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh had not received the recognition due to him for having donated land for Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), and promised to construct a university in the same city in his name, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (September 14) laid the foundation stone of the university. Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh was a freedom fighter, revolutionary, writer, social reformer, and internationalist who entered Lok Sabha as an Independent candidate from Mathura in 1957, in an election in which Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh came fourth. Mahendra Pratap established a “Provisional Government of India” in Kabul in the middle of World War I in 1915 and, as the British government targeted him for his activities, based himself in Japan. In 1932, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Click here for more Why is the Jat leader seen by his family and admirers as a much-needed icon of peace in present times? What are his contributions to the promotion of education? What was the nature and basis of his leftist inclinations? And why is he and his legacy being invoked ahead of the Assembly elections due in UP in 2022? We explain. The legacy of Mahendra Pratap Singh “He was not a political figure. He was more of a reformer who promoted education. He gave his own residence to establish the first technical school of the country. He was well versed in eight different languages, he practised di...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the stone laying foundation ceremony of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University, in Aligarh on Tuesday.(ANI Photo) The university is being established by the Uttar Pradesh government in the memory and honour of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, the great freedom fighter, educationist and social reformer. It is being set up in a total area of over 92 acres at Lodha village and Musepur Kareem Jarouli village of Aligarh's Kol tehsil. The university will provide affiliation to 395 colleges of the Aligarh division. The Yogi Adityanath government's decision to set up the university after the noted Jat figure is being politically seen as part of the ruling BJP's bid to win over the community ahead of the crucial state assembly polls early next year. A section of Jats, who live in sizeable numbers in western Uttar Pradesh, is seen to be aggrieved with the BJP over the issues of farmers. The prime minister also visited exhibition models of Aligarh node of the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma briefed Modi about the upcoming university. UP Governor Anandiben Patel was also present on the occasion.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh. The university is being established by the Uttar Pradesh government in memory and honour of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, the great freedom fighter, educationist and social reformer. It is being set up in a total area of over 92 acres at Lodha village and Musepur Kareem Jarouli village of Aligarh's Kol tehsil. The Yogi Adityanath government's decision to set up the university after the noted Jat figure is being politically seen as part of the ruling BJP's bid to win over the community ahead of the crucial assembly polls in the state early next year. Named after the Jat king and freedom fighter, the university will be constructed on 92.27 acres of land in the district’s Kol tehsil. Who was Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh? Born Though he did not complete his graduation from AMU, Singh was felicitated during the centenary celebrations of the university in 1997. He also participated in the 1911 Balkan War with his fellow students at the college. Belonging to the royal family of Mursan, he had left his home and family in Aligarh in December 1914 and escaped to Germany and remained in exile for about 33 years as he was wanted by the British authorities. File image of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh. Twitter He returned in 1947 only after India gained independence. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Mathura in 1957, defeating the then Jan Sangh candidate Atal Bihari Vajp...

LUCKNOW: Jat king and freedom fighter Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, who leased 3.04 acre land to set up In October this year, while campaigning for byelections in Aligarh’s Iglas assembly seat, CM Yogi Adityanath had announced that his government would set up a university in Singh’s name, who despite having made great contributions to AMU, was not being recognised for it. On Monday, UP cabinet cleared the proposal to set up a state university in Aligarh, named after the Jat freedom fighter. “He had given land for the purpose (of establishing the university) but his name has not been mentioned on any plaque,” the CM had said during his election campaign when promising to set up a university in Singh’s name. Singh was an alumnus of the Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College which went on to become AMU. Singh has become a bone of contention between AMU and BJP over the past few years. Not only was there a demand to rename the university after him when a portrait of Meanwhile, AMU acknowledges Singh’s contributions on its website. In a programme to celebrate Singh’s birth anniversary in 2016, a person the university refers to as a “freedom fighter and social reformist”, then AMU vice-chancellor Lt General Zameeruddin Shah had said: “Raja Pratap was a proud AMU alumnus, who urged the students to follow footsteps of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and to join the ‘Freedom Movement.’ His family was closely associated with Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, the founder of the institution, and they also donated la...

Seven years after the local BJP first demanded renaming the AMU after Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, who had donated the land for it, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday lay the foundation stone of a new university nearby in the freedom fighter's name. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday lay the foundation stone of a new university nearby in the freedom fighter's name.(File) Modi is scheduled to arrived in the city to lay the foundation of the Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday visited the venue to oversee the preparations for the event at Lodha town, about 40 km from the district headquarter of Aligarh. Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, who has been camping here to monitor the preparations, said that by establishing a state university in the name of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, the government is paying tribute to a man who devoted more than three decades of his life living in exile and fighting for India's freedom. Sharma said Mahendra Pratap was the president of India's first provisional government in exile establishing in Kabul in 1915 with the help of different Afghan tribal chiefs and heads of some governments including Japan's. After his return to India, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh played a key role in establishing different educational institutions including a pioneering technical college at Mathura, Sharma said. The establishment of a state university in his name at Lodha has been "widely welcomed b...

Seven years after the local BJP first demanded renaming the AMU after Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, who had donated the land for it, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday lay the foundation stone of a new university nearby in the freedom fighter's name. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday lay the foundation stone of a new university nearby in the freedom fighter's name.(File) Modi is scheduled to arrived in the city to lay the foundation of the Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday visited the venue to oversee the preparations for the event at Lodha town, about 40 km from the district headquarter of Aligarh. Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, who has been camping here to monitor the preparations, said that by establishing a state university in the name of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, the government is paying tribute to a man who devoted more than three decades of his life living in exile and fighting for India's freedom. Sharma said Mahendra Pratap was the president of India's first provisional government in exile establishing in Kabul in 1915 with the help of different Afghan tribal chiefs and heads of some governments including Japan's. After his return to India, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh played a key role in establishing different educational institutions including a pioneering technical college at Mathura, Sharma said. The establishment of a state university in his name at Lodha has been "widely welcomed b...

LUCKNOW: Jat king and freedom fighter Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, who leased 3.04 acre land to set up In October this year, while campaigning for byelections in Aligarh’s Iglas assembly seat, CM Yogi Adityanath had announced that his government would set up a university in Singh’s name, who despite having made great contributions to AMU, was not being recognised for it. On Monday, UP cabinet cleared the proposal to set up a state university in Aligarh, named after the Jat freedom fighter. “He had given land for the purpose (of establishing the university) but his name has not been mentioned on any plaque,” the CM had said during his election campaign when promising to set up a university in Singh’s name. Singh was an alumnus of the Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College which went on to become AMU. Singh has become a bone of contention between AMU and BJP over the past few years. Not only was there a demand to rename the university after him when a portrait of Meanwhile, AMU acknowledges Singh’s contributions on its website. In a programme to celebrate Singh’s birth anniversary in 2016, a person the university refers to as a “freedom fighter and social reformist”, then AMU vice-chancellor Lt General Zameeruddin Shah had said: “Raja Pratap was a proud AMU alumnus, who urged the students to follow footsteps of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and to join the ‘Freedom Movement.’ His family was closely associated with Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, the founder of the institution, and they also donated la...

Two years after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh had not received the recognition due to him for having donated land for Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), and promised to construct a university in the same city in his name, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (September 14) laid the foundation stone of the university. Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh was a freedom fighter, revolutionary, writer, social reformer, and internationalist who entered Lok Sabha as an Independent candidate from Mathura in 1957, in an election in which Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh came fourth. Mahendra Pratap established a “Provisional Government of India” in Kabul in the middle of World War I in 1915 and, as the British government targeted him for his activities, based himself in Japan. In 1932, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Click here for more Why is the Jat leader seen by his family and admirers as a much-needed icon of peace in present times? What are his contributions to the promotion of education? What was the nature and basis of his leftist inclinations? And why is he and his legacy being invoked ahead of the Assembly elections due in UP in 2022? We explain. The legacy of Mahendra Pratap Singh “He was not a political figure. He was more of a reformer who promoted education. He gave his own residence to establish the first technical school of the country. He was well versed in eight different languages, he practised di...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the stone laying foundation ceremony of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University, in Aligarh on Tuesday.(ANI Photo) The university is being established by the Uttar Pradesh government in the memory and honour of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, the great freedom fighter, educationist and social reformer. It is being set up in a total area of over 92 acres at Lodha village and Musepur Kareem Jarouli village of Aligarh's Kol tehsil. The university will provide affiliation to 395 colleges of the Aligarh division. The Yogi Adityanath government's decision to set up the university after the noted Jat figure is being politically seen as part of the ruling BJP's bid to win over the community ahead of the crucial state assembly polls early next year. A section of Jats, who live in sizeable numbers in western Uttar Pradesh, is seen to be aggrieved with the BJP over the issues of farmers. The prime minister also visited exhibition models of Aligarh node of the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma briefed Modi about the upcoming university. UP Governor Anandiben Patel was also present on the occasion.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh. The university is being established by the Uttar Pradesh government in memory and honour of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, the great freedom fighter, educationist and social reformer. It is being set up in a total area of over 92 acres at Lodha village and Musepur Kareem Jarouli village of Aligarh's Kol tehsil. The Yogi Adityanath government's decision to set up the university after the noted Jat figure is being politically seen as part of the ruling BJP's bid to win over the community ahead of the crucial assembly polls in the state early next year. Named after the Jat king and freedom fighter, the university will be constructed on 92.27 acres of land in the district’s Kol tehsil. Who was Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh? Born Though he did not complete his graduation from AMU, Singh was felicitated during the centenary celebrations of the university in 1997. He also participated in the 1911 Balkan War with his fellow students at the college. Belonging to the royal family of Mursan, he had left his home and family in Aligarh in December 1914 and escaped to Germany and remained in exile for about 33 years as he was wanted by the British authorities. File image of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh. Twitter He returned in 1947 only after India gained independence. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Mathura in 1957, defeating the then Jan Sangh candidate Atal Bihari Vajp...