India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the state university named after Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, a Jat icon, in Aligarh on September 14.  

The move is aimed at winning over the Jat population which accounts for nearly 17 percent of the voting population in 12 districts of the west Uttar Pradesh region. The university is expected to be ready by September 2023.

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be visiting Aligarh today to take stock of the preparations for the prime minister's visit. PWD, Nitin Ramesh Gokarn, the construction of the university will take at least 24 months from the date when its foundation would be laid.  The university will come up in Lodha and Musaipur village of Kol tehsil in Aligarh district over an area of more than 115 acres. The state government has already allocated an initial budget of over Rs 101 crore for the purpose.

The Yogi government had decided to establish a state university in the name of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh in Aligarh in 2019 after some right-wing outfits demanded rechristening the name of Aligarh Muslim University in the name of Singh, who is believed to have donated land for the iconic central university which was initially founded as Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in 1877. The college was formally transformed into a university in 1920.

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