Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate Vajpayee statue at Lucknow

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil a statue of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at Lok Bhawan in Lucknow on Wednesday. The event coincides with the birth anniversary of Vajpayee, who represented Lucknow in the Lok Sabha five times—1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004.

The venue in

the high-security zone of Lucknow has been sanitised, keeping in view the recent

statewide agitation against the CAA.

Modi will

also lay the foundation stone of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University,

for which the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to transfer 50 acres of

land.