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Continuing the practice of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defence ministers shifting the biennial DefExpo defence equipment exhibition to their home state, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will kick off DefExpo 2020 in Lucknow on Wednesday.
In 2016, then defence minister Manohar Parrikar shifted DefExpo from New Delhi to Goa, amidst huge opposition from environmental activists. Two years later, Nirmala Sitharaman shifted DefExpo 2018 to Chennai.
Like Parrikar and Sitharaman, Singh claimed on Tuesday that the current version of DefExpo had broken all previous records. Addressing the media in Lucknow, along with his co-host, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the defence minister stated
