PM lays foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University in Aligarh – Free PDF Download

• Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of a university named after Jat king Mahendra Pratap Singh in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh

• PM Modi will address a gathering and then visit the exhibition models of the Aligarh node of the Uttar Pradesh defence industrial corridor and Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University.

Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh

• Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh (1 December 1886 – 29 April 1979) was an Indian freedom fighter, journalist, writer, revolutionary, President in the Provisional Government of India, which served as the Indian Government in exile during World War I from Kabul in 1915, and social reformist.

Provisional Government of India

• The Provisional Government of India was a provisional government-in-exile established in Kabul, Afghanistan on December 1, 1915 by the Indian Independence Committee during World War I with support from the Central Powers.
• Its purpose was to enrol support from the Afghan Emir as well as Tsarist Russia, China, and Japan for the Indian Movement.

• In recognition of his services, the government of India issued postage stamps in his honor. He is popularly known as “Aryan Peshwa”
• Due to his revolutionary ideas Pratap had a good relationship with Lenin, who invited him to Russia after its liberation and welcomed him. By this time, the British had noticed his activities, and the British Government of India put a bounty on his head, attached/confiscated his entire estate, and declared him a fugitive, causing him to flee to Japan in 1925.
• He formed the Executive Board of India in Japan in 1940 during Second World War.
• At last the British government relented and Raja Mahendra Pratap was permitted to come to India from Tokyo with respect.
• He was the president of Indian Freedom Fighters’ Association and was also the president of All India Jat Mahasabha.

• He was elected as an independent candidate in the 1957 Lok Sabha Elections from Mathura Lok Sabha constituency defeating Bharatiya Jana Sangh (which would later evolve into BJP) candidate and the future Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
• 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.

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