After UP CM, Rajasthan Governor opposes holidays on birth anniversaries

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh has said that there should be no holidays on birth anniversaries of great personalities and instead students should be taught about them on these days.

Speaking at a state-level function at Mundwa village near here on the 126th birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar yesterday, he said the holidays on birth anniversaries of great personalities should be abolished and seminars should be held in schools and colleges to make students aware about their lives.

The Governor said that no society can progress unless social harmony was strengthened and discrimination ended.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had said the same yesterday as he paid tributes to the chief architect of Indian Constitution at a function in Lucknow.

"There should be no holidays in schools on birth anniversaries of great personalities. Instead a special two-hour programme should be held to teach students about them," Adityanath said.