Raja mahendra pratap singh university

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...

Premium In protest season, PM Modi reaches out to farmers, invokes Charan Singh Addressing a function after laying the foundation stone of a state university named after “Jat king” and freedom fighter Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh in Aligarh, Modi said the Centre had paid Rs 1 lakh crore directly to small farmers during the pandemic, of which over Rs 25,000 crore went to farmers in Uttar Pradesh. WITH JUST months to go for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh — where farmers, mainly from the Jat community, have been protesting against the farm laws — Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached out to the community on Tuesday, saying that the Centre is working to empower small farmers. Addressing a function after laying the foundation stone of a state university named after “Jat king” and freedom fighter Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh in Aligarh, Modi said the Centre had paid Rs 1 lakh crore directly to small farmers during the pandemic, of which over Rs 25,000 crore went to farmers in Uttar Pradesh. “Eight out of 10 farmers in India are small farmers who have a small plot of land measuring less than two hectares. That’s why it is the central government’s continuous effort to empower the small farmer,” he said. Click here for more Over the past few years, the UP government has worked to minimise the problems faced by sugarcane farmers and has spent around Rs 1.4 lakh crore on MSP, said Modi. “In the coming years, the sugarcane farmers in UP will open new doors of possibility as ethano...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh. The university has been named after the great freedom fighter, educationist and social reformer Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh. The university is being established by the Uttar Pradesh government in the memory and honour of the freedom fighter. The university 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 Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State 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. Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, who belonged to the district, was an alumnus of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and was also the president of India's first provisional government-in-exile established on December 1, 1915 in Kabul. Deputy Chief Minister of UP, 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 hi...

Aligarh: 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. PM Modi is scheduled to arrived in the city to lay the foundation of the Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Monday visited the venue Monday to oversee the preparations for the event at Lodha town, about 40 km from the district headquarter of Aligarh. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath inspects preparation ahead of foundation stone laying ceremony of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University in Aligarh Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath inspects preparation ahead of foundation stone laying ceremony of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University in Aligarh We've made preparations & are following all SOPs. We are also trying to maintain regular traffic movement here: DIG Deepak Kumar A controversy had erupted in the district in 2014 when local BJP leaders demanded the Aligarh Muslim University be renamed after him as the "AMU had been built on the land donated by the late Raja". The issue first cropped up as the lease of the 1.2 hectares of land at the City School, under the AMU, was expiring then, and the legal heirs of the late Raja "were reluctant to renew this lease". Last year, however, the issue had largely been resolved when the AMU authorities offered a proposal for rechristenin...