The Prime Minister on September 14, 2021laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh.
- As per the Prime Minister, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University will not only become a big center of modern education but it will be also known for defence-related studies, defence manufacturing technology and manpower development.
Who was Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh?
- Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh was a freedom fighter, revolutionary, writer, social reformer and internationalist.
- He was born into the ruling Jat family of Mursan estate in Hathras in 1886.
- He entered Lok Sabha as an Independent candidate from Mathura in 1957, in an election in which Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh came fourth.
- Mahendra Pratap established a “Provisional Government of India” in Kabul in the middle of World War I in 1915.
- In 1932, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
- He gave up his own residence in Mathura to be converted into a technical school named Prem Mahavidyalaya in 1909. It is said to have been the country’s first polytechnic.
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