New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has urged young people to reject discrimination and help build a society based on equality, social harmony and justice in a message marking Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti.

Adityanath described Maharishi Valmiki as a guide for both Indian culture and humanity. He said the Ramayana conveys the values of truth, righteousness, dignity and duty, while Lord Ram's character offers a vision of society founded on love, justice, harmony and fraternity.

The chief minister said social divisions could be overcome only when people moved beyond distinctions of high and low in their thinking. He called on young people to take a pledge against discrimination of any kind and to incorporate the...