Eye on Jat vote? PM Narendra Modi to lay foundation of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University in Aligarh today

The university is being established by the Uttar Pradesh government in memory and honour of noted Jat figure Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, a freedom fighter, educationist and social reformer.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of a university named after Jat King Mahendra Pratap Singh in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh on Tuesday. According to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), the PM 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.  This will be the first of the many scheduled visits of PM Modi ahead of the 2022 assembly election in Uttar Pradesh.