Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh

On 14th September, 2021, Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh.

About Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh

  • He was born into a royal family in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh in 1886.
  • An alumnus of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental Collegiate School later called Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
  • In 1957, Mahendra Pratap contested elections as an independent and defeated former Prime Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee, then a Jan Sangh candidate, from Mathura in western Uttar Pradesh.
  • He is popularly known as "Aryan Peshwa".

Contributions

Freedom Struggle

  • He took part ....
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