Aligarh: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath paid his last respects to the mortal remains of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh here on Sunday and said people were paying tributes to him from the airport to the city.
Speaking to reporters in Aligarh, Adityanath said, “Today, we have brought the mortal remains of Kalyan Singh ji to Maharani Ahilyabai Holkar Stadium in his hometown Aligarh. We decided to bring the mortal remains here so that Singh ji’s followers can see him for the last time. He has been associated with the people of Aligarh for years.”
“He is known as the Ram Bhakt of the nation. From the airport to Aligarh, the people of Uttar Pradesh have huge respect for Kalyan ji. I pray to God Ram to provide us strength to fulfill his dreams,” said Adityanath.
Upon being questioned by reporters whether Aligarh airport will be named after Kalyan Singh, Adityanath said, “We will hold a meeting with the Cabinet soon and discuss it.” Recently, according to reports, after the demise of Kalyan Singh, BJP leaders in Aligarh reiterated their demand to name the newly-constructed mini airport in Aligarh after Kalyan Singh.
Applauding the developmental works under Singh’s tenure, Yogi said, “Prior to Kalyan ji’s resignation in 1992, he undertook developmental works for the poor and downtrodden. He was not just a leader promoting a particular caste or community but worked for the welfare of all people. He believed in Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya ji’s teachings. He was a RSS leader in its truest form.”
“Unlike his opposition parties who, in the name of occupying the Chief Minister’s post, slammed the Ram Mandir movement, he was a leader of the masses,” he added.
The defining moment in Kalyan Singh’s life was the fall of Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992. Just hours after mobs of kar sevaks demolished it, Singh quit as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh owning moral responsibility.
Senior BJP leader and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh passed away on Saturday at a hospital here following illness. Kalyan Singh was admitted to Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences on July 4 following deterioration in his health condition.
“Former Chief Minister of UP and and ex-Governor of Rajasthan Kalyan Singh Ji breathed his last today. He was admitted in SGPGI on July 4 in Intensive Care Unit in critical condition. He died due to sepsis and multi-organ failure,” said a statement by the hospital.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had met Kalyan Singh earlier yesterday and had prayed for his speedy recovery. Kalyan Singh had been put on dialysis and was on the ventilator. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had enquired about Kalyan Singh’s health and several BJP leaders had visited him in the hospital.
Earlier this month, the Firozabad district panchayat had passed a resolution demanding that Firozabad be renamed as Chandra Nagar.
Aligarh (UP): After Firozabad, it is now the zila panchayat of Aligarh that has passed a resolution seeking to rename Aligarh as Harigarh.
The resolution was passed on Monday and the members claimed that it was a long pending demand.
The proposal was passed in the first meeting of the panchayat without any opposition with 50 out of 72 members in attendance.
Vijay Singh, zila panchayat chairman for Aligarh, said, “It was a long pending demand to rename Aligarh as Harigarh.
The zila panchayat approved the proposal unopposed. It would now be forwarded to the state government for approval.”
Earlier, the local BJP leaders had passed a proposal to name the Aligarh airport after BJP leader Kalyan Singh.
Kalyan Singh is a resident of Aligarh and was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh during the Ram Janambhoomi movement.
In Mainpuri on Monday, the zila panchayat passed a resolution, seeking to rename Mainpuri as Mayan Nagar after sage Mayan who founded the present day Mainpuri.
“One of the zila panchayat members had moved the proposal for renaming Mainpuri as Mayan Nagar and the proposal was passed on Monday with 23 members supporting the motion and two opposing it,” said Archana Bhadoria, zila panchayat chairperson of Mainpuri.
Mainpuri is the stronghold of Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, who won five elections from the constituency.
Earlier this month, the Firozabad district panchayat had passed a resolution demanding that Firozabad be renamed as Chandra Nagar.
Locals believed that King Chandrasen lived in Firozabad and because of this it was earlier known as Chandravar Nagar till about 1560 AD.
“Later, a representative of emperor Akbar, Firoz Shah, visited the area and the place was named after him as Firozabad. The demand to rename Firozabad as Chandra Nagar has been raised time and again,” said a local BJP leader.
The Yogi Adityanath government has already changed the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj, Faizabad to Ayodhya and Mughalsarai to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar.
(i)- British Indian politicians from Gujarat and U.P disintegrated India in 1947 and now again may do the same
(ii)- Present India may pay the price of depending not on ‘Americanism’ but foolishly on ‘Americans’.
Kabul & entire Afghanistan has been taken over by Taliban as reported at https://www.news18.com/news/world/afghanistan-news-taliban-kabul-mazar-i-sharif-ashraf-ghani-india-us-herat-4087322.html which has not come as surprise. Though nobody expected such a quick victory for the Taliban because US-President Biden (either naively or misleadingly) assured the world that about three hundred thousand security forces (against merely about 70,000 Taliban) were in Afghanistan and in view of the huge amount of money, military arms & equipments, intelligence, training etc provided by the USA, the Afghan government would defeat the Taliban.
Of course ‘the USA was war fatigued and wanted to leave Afghanistan (a SAARC member) by any means’ can be understood but when the USA started talking to Taliban and started making deal with Taliban for the withdrawal of the forces of the USA and of its allies including NATO, India should have woken up and should have adopted a plan to ensure that Afghan government does not lose to Taliban. But the way India (which, despite being an economically humble country, dumped $ 3 billion of so-called aid in post 9/11 Afghanistan) behaved all along in Afghanistan should not come as a surprise given the history of the politics of Indian politicians (specially from British Indian region) which can be termed as humbug, to say the least.
The Indians who think (that the Taliban may come to power but can’t govern the country) do not understand that the Taliban need not do it. So far the Taliban were carrying out militant Jihad in Afghanistan and after coming to power in Afghanistan the Taliban will convert themselves into the Global Taliban and then will carry out global militant Jihad for achieving ‘one military for Muslims’ (OMM) with not merely Chinese help / approval but even with Chinese submission to the religious fury of the Global Taliban.
Because there are 4 major religious groups in this world namely Christians, Muslims, Chinese and Hindus. The 3 major religious groups have one military (Christian West through NATO and Chinese & Hindus due to their one country). Muslims believe that this ‘fragmented military power of the Muslims’ is the main reason that hundreds of millions of Muslims are bleeding and weeping profusely from Myanmar to NAME. Taliban in power (by roping-in militant Jihadis from all over the world) can easily achieve OMM by using China as mentioned at –
https://www.ansarpress.com/english/23540 or
http://politicstoday.in/if-china-uses-likely-taliban-govt-in-afghanistan-no-big-deal-but-if-global-taliban-uses-china-will-be-game-changer-catastrophic/ or
Because Kashmir is crucial for achieving OMM and Kashmir is the most easy issue for the Global Taliban to takeover nuclear Pakistan hence now after irresponsibly watching the takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban, India should be prepared (due its derelictions) to lose Kashmir (maybe even entire J&K) to Global Taliban through OMM after Pak take-over.
There is one more reason that India may suffer another dismemberment. Present India is not merely British India but about 565 princely States too. But before independence British Indian politicians from Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh (Gandhi, Jinnah Nehru, Patel etc) disintegrated India in 1947 and now again (Modi, Amit Shah and Raj Nath) from Gujarat and U.P. may do the same by way of losing Kashmir (even entire J&K including Jammu and Ladakh) to Global Taliban, who will be supported by international militant Jihadis for achieving OMM which will become very easy due to extremely emotive (like Palestine for Muslims all across the world) Kashmir issue.
Anybody who can not protect the territorial integrity of the country does not know even abcd of politics this is what we (who were born before 1947 in pre-independence princely State of India, namely Rajasthan) know from our childhood. Territory is extremely important also for the civilians who live on it that is why in Rajasthan the rulers never allowed others to directly rule in Rajasthan (they took Mansabdari from Mughals, suzerainty from Britishers and even paid ‘Chauth etc’ to Marathas but Rajasthan was always ruled directly by local rulers of Rajasthan). But now it seems that we are destined to suffer silently while these Gujaratis and UP-walas (Modi, Amit Shah and Rajnath etc) will again become national heroes (like Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Jinnah etc) after dismembering their motherland.
India grossly underestimated Islam (especially the militant Jihadi Islam) and neglected the three important and crucial issues of (i)- ‘dual citizenship’ for about 160 million forcibly displaced Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims (and their children) during partition (ii)- Plebiscite in J&K (as mandated not merely by UN resolution but also by ‘Instrument of Accession’ the IoA of J&K to India) and of Balochistan, the IoA of which was taken by Pakistan through military pressure and (iii)- Secular democracy in Afghanistan,
These fatal derelictions of India have brought India to this unfortunate situation which is due to one more reason that India depended on ‘Americans’ and not on ‘Americanism’. Evidently British India has been following the values of post world war II Britain and not Americanism. Here is the fundamental difference. The USA believes that territory depends on military power. The USA not only increased its territory immensely after its war of independence of 1776 but President Lincoln allowed killing & injuring of practically every working age South American during the civil war in 1861 but did not allow territory of the USA to be partitioned. On the contrary there was a time when Lord Clive was given hero’s welcome in Britain because he started the process (by winning battle of Plassey in 1757) of bringing India to Britain but Lord Mountbatten was given hero’s welcome for dismantling in 1947 the British empire in India.
This naivety of Indian politicians (of British India and others who are now under debilitating influence of British Indians) is all the more surprising given the fact that whatever is happening in Afghanistan specially post 9/11 should have constrained the Indian ruling politicians to understand that peace can come to any country only when the State is strong. This is the reason that the first religion based on non-violence the Jainism was started by its founder ‘Tirthanakar’ (Prophet) who was a ruling King (Rishabh Dev, the Adinath) because in modern times also one can practice Jainism (or any other non-violent religion) by giving monopoly of violence to the apparatus of sanctioned physical coercion of the powerful State.
Now one can only pray that Indians (an overwhelming majority from British India and also from former princely States who are presently under poisonous influence of the ‘military related politics of pre-partition British Indians’) will not watch helplessly the disastrous price (another dismember of motherland) for this blunder, India is likely to pay
(Writer is author of ‘Betrayal of Americanism’ and presently staying in Shakopee, MN, USA )
Sudha Ramen of the IFS shared the video on her Twitter handle and wrote, “National anthem in any form would give us goosebumps. Many thanks to this Iranian girl for this beautiful performance”
A video of an Iranian girl playing India’s National Anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’ on santoor is going viral on social media platforms. The less than one-minute-long video shows the girl named Tara Ghahremani from Tehran dressed in pink attire as she sits and plays the melodious rendition of our national anthem
The video is winning the hearts of Indians as it came at a time when India celebrates its 75th Independence Day on Sunday, August 15, 2021.
A video of the girl was also shared by Sudha Ramen of the Indian Forest Services on her Twitter handle with the caption, “National anthem in any form would give us goosebumps. Many thanks to this Iranian girl for this beautiful performance.”
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday unfurled the Tricolour to mark the nation’s 75th Independence Day at the historic Red Fort.
32 Olympic winners, 240 Olympians and many Covid warriors were honoured during the 75th Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort. As soon as the national flag was hoisted by PM Narendra Modi, flower petals were showered at Red Fort by two Mi 17 1V helicopters of the Indian Air Force.