Madhya Pradesh GovernmentвЂ™s Higher Education Department, has already announced that вЂњRamayana, Mahabharata & Ramcharitmanas has been included in the syllabus of engineering studentsвЂќ. This is being done as вЂњa part of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and for the learning of studentsвЂќ stated news reports and that the decision was taken to reportedly вЂњadd cultural tenets to technical education.вЂќ Madhya Pradesh adds Ramayana, Mahabharata to engineering syllabusДЄccording to news reports the Madhya Pradesh government has decided to add Mahabharata and Ramayana courses in the Engineering syllabus. Now, with the BJP, a right leading political party in power at the center, many of its leaders, especially in states with a BJP government have also demanded that the syllabus be tweaked to suit the populist party line. Educational institutions, and what is taught in them have been on the watchlist of most political parties when in power. While that was way before the farmers' protest reached Delhi, it was a proposal made perhaps with an eye on the community votes in the next elections.

However it was inВ 2019, that BJP and RSS leaders demanded that the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) should be renamed after Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh. The massive rallies being held in the state have also seen farmers of the Jaat community and others that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government of UP will be ousted if the three contentious farm laws are not withdrawn. Some say that the move to name a university in his honour, is also aimed at placating the influential Jaat community, which has been at the forefront of the farmers' protest, especially at the Ghazipur-Delhi border. He returned in 1947 after India gained independence and was elected to the вЂњLok Sabha from Mathura in 1957,вЂќ interestingly as an Independent candidate he had defeated the then Jan Sangh candidate Atal Bihari Vajpayee! A freedom fighter who hailed from вЂњthe 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 BritishвЂќ reported Firstpost. Multiple news reports recalled that Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, hailed as a вЂJaat kingвЂ™,В hailed from the district, and was an alumnus of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Uttar Pradesh is firmly in election mode, and this is perhaps the first of many such inaugurations to come before the 2022 assembly election in the state. According to news reports, the Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, will be set up in an area of вЂњover 92 acres at Lodha and Musepur Kareem Jarouli villages of AligarhвЂ™s Kol tehsilвЂќ, and 395 colleges of the Aligarh division will be affiliated with it.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of a University named after an eminent jaat leader Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh.

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