P govt names two medical institutes after Kalyan

The Uttar Pradesh rnment has decided to e two medical institutes of tate after former chief minkalyan Singh who died after g illness at Lucknow’s Sanandhi Post Graduate Instiof Medical Sciences GIMS) on Saturday (August in view Kalyan Singh’s focus on works of public welfare.

Only recently Kalyan Singh’s son Rajveer, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Etah, had praised Adityanath for being with his father’s mortal remains for three days, escorting them from Lucknow to Aligarh, Atrauli and Narora on the banks of the Ganga where the last rites of the late leader were performed.

“He acted like my father’s eldest son,” Rajveer said in praise of Yogi Adityanath.

The state’s deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has already announced the naming of roads across the state after the late leader who was the torchbearer of the Ram temple movement that propelled the BJP’S rise to power.

“We have decided to name roads at all those places that were associated with him (Kalyan Singh) after him. He was a hero of the temple movement and hence the road leading to the Ram temple would be named after him. He served as UP chief minister twice and lived in Lucknow. Hence, a road in Lucknow would be named after him. Etah, Bulandshahr, Atrauli and Prayagraj were places connected with him and hence roads there too would be named after him,” Maurya said.

The UP BJP unit is holding meetings across the state in memory of Kalyan Singh.

“He was a great leader, a visionary and hence he will live on in popular memory forever,” said UP BJP leader Tarun Kant Tripathi.

Since Singh’s death, the BJP has targeted Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav for not arriving to pay his last respects to the departed leader and alleged that it was due to vote bank considerations. The SP has hit back at the BJP for trying to do politics even in the death of a leader.

In AMU, some protesters put up posters against their vice chancellor professor Tariq Mansoor on Monday night (August 23) for condoling the demise of Kalyan Singh who, they alleged, was responsible for the demolition of the Babri mosque.

Uttar Pradesh ministers have condemned the act of the protestors and sought action against them.

In September 2020, a special CBI court acquitted Kalyan Singh and all the 31 others, including BJP veterans LK Advani and MM Joshi, who were accused of conspiracy to demolish the mosque.