Ambedkar death anniversary: Yogi Adityanath govt cancels public holiday

In fact, the BSP government in the state had declared Ambedkar death anniversary as a public holiday but the decision was revoked after the SP government came to power

Uttar Pradesh government has scrapped the public holiday marking the death anniversary of Architect of the Indian Constitution Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar on December 6. With this, the number of holidays cancelled by the Yogi Adityanath government rose to 16.

In fact, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government in the state had declared Ambedkar death anniversary as a public holiday but the decision was revoked after the Samajwadi Party (SP) government came to power in 2012. However, SP government under Akhilesh Yadav had declared a holiday on Ambedkar's birth anniversary in 2015.

Holidays cancelled by Yogi Aditynath government

• Jananayak Karpuri Thakur Janam Divas- 24 January 2017
• Maharishi Kashyap and Maharaj Guha Jayanti-05 April 2017
• Cheti Chand-29 March 2017
• Hazarat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti Ajmeri Garib Ka Urs 6 rajab- 14 April 2017
• Chandrashekhar Jayanti- 17 April 2017
• Parashuram Jayanti- 28 April 2017
• Lok Nayak Maharana Pratap Jayanti- 9 May 2017
• Jamaat-Ul-Vida (The last day of Ramzaan)-23 June 2017
• Viswakarma Puja-17 September 2017
• Maharaja Agrasen Jayanti- 21 September 2017
• Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti- 5 September 2017
• Chhath Puja-26 October 2017
• Sardar Vallabhai Patel and Acharyya Narendra Dev Jayanti- 31 October 2017
• Id-e-miladunnavi-2 December 2017
• Chaudhry Charan Singh Jayanti- 23 December 2017

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