UP: Proposed medical college to be named after freedom-fighter

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today announced that the medical college being set up in Saharanpur will be named after freedom fighter and eminent scholar Sheykh al Hind Mahmud al Hasan Madni.

The Chief Minister made this announcement when President of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, Maulana Arshad Madni, met him at his official residence here this afternoon.

Akhilesh also said that a four-lane road will also be constructed between Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur.

On this occasion, Madni said that a demand for naming the university after Mahmud al Hasan Madni was made in past also, and this has been fulfilled today.