Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

JP launches intellectu­al meets across Uttar Pradesh

Talks students’ fare in Kashi, UP BJP f slams Cong, SP in dhya

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The Bhara Janata Party (BJP) ched the prabuddh varg melans (intellectu­al meets) ss Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. one such meeting in Varachief minister Yogi Adityaappe­aled to Kashi’s scholto find an alternativ­e to rt education to a large numf students, who lack gadgets ablets and computers, if the d-19 pandemic stretches for . income was equivalent to nation per capita income. But by 2016, it decreased to one third. Several steps have been taken and in days to come, the per capita income of UP will increase, he said.

In Ayodhya, Swatantra Dev Singh said, “... the Samajwadi Party leadership had okayed firing on karsevaks in Ayodhya in 1990. That firing was actually on the nationalis­tic and cultural ideology of the nation.” Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya was in Kanpur for the ‘prabuddh varg sammelan’ while UP BJP in-charge Radha Mohan Singh was in Prayagraj.

UP co-general secretary (in-charge) Karamvir was in Saharanpur, BJP’S national vice president Rekha Verma was in Chitrakoot, national general secretary Arun Singh was in Mathura. Other leaders present for the event at various places across the state included national secretary Vinod Sonker (Agra). Several union ministers including Sanjeev Balyan (Ghaziabad), VK Singh (Meerut), Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (Jhansi), Bhanu Pratap Verma (Moradabad), Kaushal Kishore (Noida), BL Verma (Bareilly), Pankaj Choudhary (Gorakhpur), Ajay Mishra (Shahjahanp­ur) also addressed these meetings.

BJP leader Subrat Pathak, who is in-charge of these intellectu­al meets, said they would be held in all 403 assembly constituen­cies of the state.

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) too has similarly named its Brahmin outreach campaigns across the state as ‘prabuddh varg sammelans and BJP leaders admit that in their meetings too, Brahmin community leaders would participat­e.

 ?? SOURCED ?? CM Yogi Adityanath honouring prominent people during Prabuddh Sammelan in Varanasi on Sunday.
SOURCED CM Yogi Adityanath honouring prominent people during Prabuddh Sammelan in Varanasi on Sunday.

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