Agra,

01 June (HS): Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said that India's brave Lokmata

Ahilyabai Holkar is an inspiration for us. She was a lover of justice.

Ahilyabai formed a women's contingent in her army to empower women. The Vice

President said that Ahilyabai worked to create and preserve our cultural

heritage. A hundred years after Aurangzeb destroyed the Kashi Vishwanath

temple, Ahilyabai Holkar re-built the temple. He was addressing a seminar

organized under the Ahilyabai Holkar Janam Trishatabdi Varsh Smriti Abhiyan at

the Government Inter College Ground, Agra on Sunday.

Jagdeep

Dhankhar said that today we should take a pledge that we will follow her

ideals. Ahilyabai Holkar had imagined a great India in those difficult times.

Religion, culture and governance flow in the same stream. She built many

temples in the country like Somnath, Kashi Vishwanath, Mahakaleshwar,

Badrinath, Kedarnath, Bhimashankar etc.

The

Vice President said that Lokmata Ahilyabai Holkar was a Dhangar and we are

Dhankhars. He said that what Ahilyabai Holkar did is being done by UP Chief

Minister Yogi Adityanath today. The coming generations will remember this work

of Yogi in the same way as Lokmata Ahilyabai is being remembered today. The

work done in Ayodhya and Kashi under the leadership of Modi and Yogi was not an

easy task. Preservation of our culture is very important for us.

Jagdeep

Dhankhar said that we are Indians. Indianness is our identity. Nation is

supreme. I would like to remind you of the valor of Indian Army. I congratulate

Indian Army for the success of Sindoor. Now India has changed. It will end

terrorism. We will completely finish off anyone who tries to harm us. Today UP

means good governance. Rule of law. Development is not possible without the

rule of law. Braveheart Ahilyabai is an inspiration for us. In today's India,

women have a place in the army. Now there is reservation in Parliament and

Vidhan Sabha as well. I understand the pain of farmers. India will be

developed. Farmers are determined.

Haryana

Governor Bandaru Dattatreya, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath,

Union Minister S.P.Singh Baghel, Maharashtra Legislative Council Chairman Prof.

Ram Shankarrao Shinde were prominently present on the stage. Earlier, Vice

President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Dr. Sudesh Dhankhar planted saplings in the GIC

ground in memory of their late mother Kesari Devi and Bhagwati Devi.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi