PM Modi lays foundation of university named after Jat king in Aligarh. Know more about him

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of the Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Uttar Pradesh. The PM also visited the exhibition models of Aligarh node of Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor.

The university is being established by the Uttar Pradesh government in memory and honour of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, who was a freedom fighter, educationist and social reformer. The university is being set up in a total area of over 92 acres at Lodha and Musepur Kareem Jarouli villages of Aligarh’s Kol tehsil. It will provide affiliation to 395 colleges of the Aligarh division.

This is the first of many visits of PM Modi ahead of the 2022 assembly election in Uttar Pradesh.

Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, who belonged to the district, was an alumnus of the Aligarh Muslim University and was the president of India’s first provisional government-in-exile established on December 1, 1915 in Kabul.

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.

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 Vajpayee, contesting as an Independent.