Lucknow sources have made a statement that Yogi Adityanath led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday renamed Kanpur Airport as Ganesh Shanker Vidhyarthi, an Indian National Congress icon, a renowned freedom fighter, and a journalist.
Sources have stated that Vidhyarthi was born in Kanpur in 1890. He was Founder-Editor of revolutionary weekly Pratap. Meanwhile when impressed with Mahatma Gandhi and his fight against injustice he had joined INC in 1916.
A was also closely associated with famous freedom fighters Bhagat Singh and Chandrasekhar Azad. He had translated Victor Hugo epic novel Ninety Three.Currently this decision to rename Kanpur Airport after he was taken on Saturday at Yogi Cabinet meeting. Bareilly Airport was also re-christened as Nath Nagari Airport. Meanwhile, the Yogi Cabinet also approved a new policy for re-opening old cinema halls across the state. There are about 724 cinema halls which closed down in the last few years.
