Much is happening today as
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Varanasi; - to adopt a village under his "Saansad
Adarsh Gram Yojana" It is village,
Jayapur, located in Raja Talaab tehsil nearly 25 km from Varanasi with a
population of 4,000. Of them, 2,700 are voters.
Newsreports are agog with what
Modiji conveyed : some of them are :
·
Plant
five trees when a girl is born. At the time of her marriage 20 years later, you
can sell five trees and use money to prepare for the event:
·
PM
rakes up female foeticide issue, says Jayapur village should celebrate the
birth of a baby girl. Some families get worried when a girl is born.
·
Let
us decide that no child will eat without washing hands in our village. Do we
need any government to do this? asks PM
·
Those
who have left the village for studies or jobs, must come back to celebrate the
birthday of their village: PM Modi
·
We
can go anywhere but the knowledge we can gain from our villages is
unparalleled, says the PM.
The humble PM asked the
village to adopt him and said it is not that I have adopted Jayapur. I have
come here with a request to you to adopt me and teach me a lot. Express and other agencies report that the village
was already adopted by the Rashtriya SwayamSevak Sangh (RSS) under its ideal
village scheme in 2002. Sangh has formed three categories for villages and
focused on planting trees, promoting animal husbandry. Under the SAGY project,
each MP is supposed to adopt a village and develop it as a model village.
Interestingly Times of
India reports that it is the second victory after a gap of nearly 450 years for
the 3,500-odd villagers when it was announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi
would adopt and develop their Jayapura village in his constituency Varanasi. The first victory dates back to the Mughal era
and finds mention in History books, the second one is hitting the headlines a
day Modi lands here and formally adopts the village. According to BHU's political science
department's HoD, Prof KK Mishra, in 17th century, when Mughal emperor
Aurangzeb was said to be on temple-demolition spree, his soldiers caught
attention of an old temple of Lord Hanuman in the village. It was a unique as
the main deity Lord Hanuman was black in color. It is for this reason that the
temple is still known as "Kale Hanuman ka temple". The villagers not only put up a brave fight
before the Mughal soldiers, they even forced them to beat the retreat, Prof
Misra says. In 2003, an army personnel Ajay Kumar Singh from the village
attained martyrdom while fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.
Observers believe that
since Jayapura is surrounded by four big villages, all Patel-dominated, the
cascading effect of the development in Modi's adopted village will certainly be
visible in those villages. Villagers work as masons in Maharashtra, Gujarat and
Karnataka while sugarcane crop known as
Jayapuria sugarcane is produced all round the year unlike in other areas where
it is a seasonal crop. The village supplies sugarcane to juice sellers of not
only Varanasi but also districts of east Bihar.
Abul Muzaffar Muhi-ud-Din Mohammad bin Aurangzeb,
(1618 – 1707) commonly known as Aurangzeb was the sixth Mughal Emperor whose reign
lasted for 49 years from 1658 until his death in 1707. Aurangzeb was a notable
expansionist who raided many
territories. Though he expanded the
mughal kingdom in a big way, his wars led to the exhaustion of the imperial
Mughal treasury and death of approximately 4.6 million people, mostly
civilians.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
7th Nov. 2014.
