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Tribune News Service
Ropar, November 17
MLA Dinesh Chadha has sent a proposal to the Education Department to rename the Government Primary School (Boys) in the city after the freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai on his martyrdom day here today Lala Lajpat Rai had studied in this school till Class VI.
Interestingly, a stone with this information is displayed on the main door of the school. But no one is sure when the freedom fighter lived in the city and studied in this school.
Chadha said today on the martyrdom day of the freedom fighter that he started asking school teachers and local historians, but they had no idea about the circumstances under which Lajpat Rai came to Ropar and studied in this particular school.
While searching, the MLA found a book in a local library, which had details about Lajpat Rai’s father, Munshi Radha Krishan, an Urdu and Persian teacher, who taught in the government college for eight years in Ropar and the martyr studied up to Class VI. in the same school.
The MLA said that through the Commissioner of Ropar he sent a proposal to the Education Department to rename the school after the name of Lala Lajpat Rai.
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