President Ram Nath Kovind Friday unveiled the statue of Sampurnanand, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and additionally inaugurated an auditorium named after him on the U.P. Sainik School in Lucknow.
Addressing the concluding rite of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Sainik School named after Param Vir Chakra awardee Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey, Mr Kovind stated Sampooranand and Pandey shared the not unusual place concept of dedicating the entirety to countrywide pride.
Sampooranand turned into CM of Uttar Pradesh from 1954 to 1960.
The President is on a four-day excursion to Uttar Pradesh and could go to Lucknow, Gorakhpur and Ayodhya. On August 26, he attended the ninth convocation of the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow.
On August 28, Mr Kovind will lay the muse stone for the Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath AYUSH Vishwavidyalaya and inaugurate the Mahayogi Gorakhnath Vishwavidyalaya at Gorakhpur. A day later, he's going to go to Ayodhya by teaching from Lucknow and release numerous initiatives of the State branch of the way of life and tourism and carry out pooja at the development site of the Ram Mandir.