UP CM heaps praise on Maharana Pratap
BALRAMPUR: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday showered praises on Rajput warrior king Maharana Pratap and Maratha warrior king Shivaji.
“The people of the country will never show respect to someone like Jaichand, who had displayed his lust for power. Rather, they would embrace Maharana Pratap and Shivaji as role models,” he said while participating in the birth anniversary (according to the Vikram Samvat, the traditional Hindu calendar) celebrations of Maharana Pratap at the India-nepal border area here.
Adityanath offered floral tributes to the statue of the Rajput king and recalled his contributions.
He also saw an exhibition put up by members of the Tharu tribe.
Lauding the Tharu tribe, Adityanath said, “Members of the Tharu community are working as the defenders of the nation at the porous Indianepal border region.”
He announced an intermediate school for the Tharu children and an auditorium for the community.
On the occasion, Adityanath said India was gradually becoming a superpower under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“In the last three years, India has been able to assert itself on the global stage,” he said. The BJP leader said both the Centre and the state government were working for the betterment of all sections of the society. On May 9, during the birth anniversary celebrations of Maharana Pratap in Lucknow, Adityanath had described the Rajput warrior king as a “role model for the society”. LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government is planning to include items like dalia, laddoo, halwa and khichdi in the menu of Anganwadi centres which are meant for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers from the slums.
These women and children are being served the traditional ‘panjiri’, which is a good source of protein with high calorie value, for past several years. It is distributed free of cost at the Anganwaadi centres.
“The state government received information that children, pregnant women and lactating mothers living in slums were not evincing much interest in consuming panjiri, despite its nutritional value,” UP Minister of State for Child Development and Nutrition Anupama Jaiswal told PTI.
“Recently, a team of officials of the Department of Child Development and Nutrition visited Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, where they studied the food menu.