CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Muzaffarnagar (Meerapur), the by-election of Meerapur assembly seat is so important for the Rashtriya Lok Dal that it can be gauged from the fact that within the last three days, RLD national president and Union Minister Jayant Chaudhary made two visits to the area. On 22nd, he held a meeting of workers in Ramraj of Meerapur assembly constituency and on 24th September, he participated in the Kaushal Mahotsav organized in Bijnor. Where he handed over job offer letters to 3500 youth.

Thousands of party workers under the leadership of regional RLD MP Chandan Chauhan welcomed Jayant Chaudhary warmly. Talking to journalists after the program, Union Minister of State Independent Incharge Jayant Chaudhary said that both Chaudhary Charan Singh and Chaudhary Ajit Singh wished that the talents of rural India should get a proper platform for respect and employment. After he became a minister, there has been a big change in the situation that earlier the youth used to visit big companies in Noida, Gurgaon and Delhi but now these companies are coming to him on their own. As Minister of State for Education, Jayant Chaudhary also said that in the year 2014, only 68 thousand crore rupees were spent on education, which has increased to one lakh 30 thousand crores today after the 10-year tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said that there are three thousand government ITI's in the country. For their improvement, a provision of 7 thousand crore rupees has been made in the budget.

He said that technical education is the future of young India and the present. On being asked about the by-elections to be held in Uttar Pradesh on 10 seats, Jayant Chaudhary said that NDA will contest on all ten seats. RLD will field a strong and winning candidate on Meerapur seat.

On the question being raised by Akhilesh regarding police encounters in Uttar Pradesh, Jayant Chaudhary said that police encounter is a process and until its investigation is out, it would not be right to react on it.