"Pierces through the darkness and shines brightly...": Jagadguru Shri Rambhadracharya praises VP Jagdeep Dhankhar
Sep 07, 2024
Chitrakoot (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 7 : Spiritual leader Jagadguru Shri Rambhadracharya on Saturday praised Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and said that the Vice President pierces through the darkness and shines brightly when the opposition crosses the "limits of indiscipline."
"When the opposition crosses the limits of indiscipline, our Jagdeep pierces through the darkness and shines brightly," Rambhadracharya said.
The Vice President presided as the Chief Guest at the National Symposium on 'Aadhunik Jeevan Me Rishi Parampara' at Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Divyang State University, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday.
"Vice-President, Jagdeep Dhankhar presided as the Chief Guest at the National Symposium on 'Aadhunik Jeevan Me Rishi Parampara' at Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Divyang State University, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh today," the Vice President of India posted on X.
Earlier today, the Vice President inaugurated the first Sainik School in Eastern Uttar Pradesh and the second managed by the Uttar Pradesh Sainik School Society.
The Sainik School inaugurated by Dhankhar in Gorakhpur is built on a 49-acre site and costs Rs 176.45 crore.
Jagdeep Dhankhar cautioned citizens against compromising on nationalism, terming it "the ultimate betrayal to the nation."
"Wherever anyone threatens the integrity of the nation, we must not tolerate it," Dhankar said.
Highlighting that duty towards the nation must always we kept above self-interest and political interest, the Vice-President warned that a failure to do so would amount to an attack on India's civilisational ethos spanning several millennia.
Delivering the keynote address at the inauguration of Sainik School Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh today, the Vice-President reminisced his own days as a student of Sainik School Chittorgarh, and underlined the impact of his Alma Mater in shaping his personal and professional journey.
"While my biological birth was at Kithana village, my real birth took place at Sainik School Chittorgarh," he said.
Emphasising on the importance of education as an epicentre of transformative change, Dhankhar highlighted the power of education in giving individuals greater control over their lives, and in decimating inequities and cutting across malpractices in society at large.
During his visit, Jagdeep Dhankhar and Dr. Sudesh Dhankhar planted saplings in the memory of their late mothers, Kesari Devi and Bhagwati Devi, at the premises of the newly inaugurated Sainik School Gorakhpur. They also inaugurated the shooting range on the premises.
Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; Kamlesh Paswan, Minister of State, Ministry of RuralDevelopment, Government of India; Ravi Kishan Shukla, Member of Lok Sabha; Gulab Devi, Minister of State of Secondary Education, Government of Uttar Pradesh and other dignitaries were also present on the occasion.
