{"id":79690,"date":"2025-12-26T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=79690"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:37:23","slug":"rashtriya-prerna-sthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rashtriya-prerna-sthal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashtriya Prerna Sthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Rashtriya Prerna Sthal Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister recently inaugurated the Rashtra Prerna Sthal in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, dedicated to the life and ideals of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, marking his 101st birth anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Rashtriya Prerna Sthal<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been developed as a landmark <\/span><b>national memorial<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and inspirational complex of enduring national significance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been <\/span><b>dedicated to the life and ideals of former Prime Minister Shri <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/atal-bihari-vajpayee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atal Bihari Vajpayee<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located on the <\/span><b>banks of the Gomti River in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is spread across 65 acres.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sprawling complex also features <\/span><b>65-foot-high bronze statues of BJP ideologues<\/b> <b>Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, alongside Vajpayee.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each statue weighs 42 tonnes and has a water body surrounding their platforms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Constructed at an approximate cost of <\/span><b>\u20b9230 crore, t<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he complex is envisioned as a permanent national asset dedicated to fostering leadership values, national service, cultural consciousness, and public inspiration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The complex houses a <\/span><b>state-of-the-art museum<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> designed in the <\/span><b>shape of a lotus flower. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It spans approximately 98,000 square feet.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It features five galleries and 12 interpretation walls depicting the lives, struggles, and ideologies of the three leaders.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/pm-modi-inaugurates-rashtra-prerna-sthal-in-lucknow-pays-tribute-to-atal-bihari-vajpayee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DDN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashtriya Prerna Sthal in Lucknow is a national memorial dedicated to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, featuring grand statues, a lotus-shaped museum and galleries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":79726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,4430,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-79690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-rashtriya-prerna-sthal","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}