Uttar Pradesh plans to celebrate Vajpayee’s birthday in a big way

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The Uttar Pradesh government has planned to observe Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birth anniversary – also the National Good Governance Day – with numerous programmes such as Kavi Sammelan, debates and poetry recitals at various places in the state.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will pay floral tributes to the former prime minister in the Lok Bhawan premises in the state capital. Moreover, poetry recitations in memory of Vajpayee will be held across districts on Sunday.

In the memory of Atal ji, a short play on his life will also be staged. Apart from this, Atal Geet Ganga programme will be organised by the Culture Department in Bateshwar, Agra, in which Sudhir Narayan, Archi, Shreya, Deshdeep and Rinku will sing poems written by the former Prime Minister.

At the same time, the birth anniversary celebrations will also be organized in Balrampur, in which verses of Atal ji will be recited by poets Mukul Mahan, Shiv Kumar Vyas, Shashi Shreya, Yogi Yogesh Shukla and Shreyas Tripathi. The Yogi government also commenced the ‘Sankalp Atal Har Ghar Jal’ public awareness campaign on Saturday.

Meanwhile, on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Chief Minister Yogi will inaugurate Dynamic Facade Lighting at Lok Bhavan on Sunday.

While the entire Lok Bhavan complex will reverberate with the powerful speech of ‘Kavivar Atal’, many dignitaries including the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister will pay tribute to the former PM. It will also feature a special programme of rendition of Atal ji’s poetry in the melodious voices of Hariharan and Jagjit Singh.

Earlier, in August this year, the Chief Minister had started dynamic facade lighting at Vidhan Bhavan. Since then this building has become the centre of attraction for people in Lucknow.