India, Aug. 31 -- By Dinesh Pratap Singh, Chief Spokesperson, BJP, Uttar Pradesh

There has been a peculiar tradition in Indian politics: whenever the name of a great personality is associated with an institution, road, or major building, political parties rush to link it with their ideology or attempt to stamp their ideological imprint on it. This approach is fundamentally wrong. Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya and Jayaprakash Narayan are shared national icons and a source of pride for the entire nation. Therefore, if the process of making the Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan International Centre (JPNIC) in Lucknow operational has now begun, it should be viewed as a national duty rather than turne...