Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

WILL BUILD VARSITY IN RAJA MAHENDRA’S MEMORY: CM

- HT Correspond­ents letters@htlive.com ■

AGRA/GANGOH : Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday targeted the opposition while seeking votes for party candidate for Iglas by -lection Rajkumar Sahyogi . This was his second election rally within a month at Iglas.

He hailed the decision taken by his party at the centre on Article 370 in Kashmir and targeted the Congress government­s for not doing so in the past. He blamed the 15-year rule of the SP and the BSP government­s in the state for damaging the hardware industry of Aligarh and announced creation of a university in the name of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh in Aligarh.

The chief minister targeted the Aligarh Muslim University for not even laying a stone attributed to Late Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh who donated land to build the AMU.

GOVT COMMITTED TO DEVELOPMEN­T OF ALL

In Gangoh, chief minister said the UP government was committed to the developmen­t of all, but no appeasemen­t to anyone. He was addressing a public rally at the Kisan Sevak Inter College ground in support of BJP candidate Keerat Singh. “The BJP is doing everything possible to take the process of developmen­t forward. The government is churning out new policies for the youth, farmers and exploring possibilit­ies of jobs and employment,” said the CM. He said the wood carving skill of Saharanpur would be promoted under the ‘One District, One Product’ (ODOP) Scheme’.

Meanwhile, men wearing black shirts and women sporting black dupattas were stopped from entering the venue by cops who apprehende­d some kind of protest. They even stopped a few people wearing black pants.

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