Lt Governor flagged off Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Ji Pracheen Marg Pavitra Chhari Yatra
Attended Pratham Pooja at Kol Kandoli Temple, Nagrota in Jammu.
Lieutenant Governor Shri Manoj Sinha today attended the auspicious ‘Pratham Pooja’ of the 22nd Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Ji Pracheen Marg Pavitra Chhari Yatra at the holy Kol Kandoli Temple in Nagrota.
The Lt Governor paid obeisance and later flagged off the Chhari Yatra carrying Holy Jyot. The Yatra will pass through the heritage route before reaching Oli Mata Temple Bamyal Chhapanoo.
The Lt Governor greeted the devotees and prayed for peace, progress and prosperity of J&K.
Manoj Sinha (born 1 July 1959) is an Indian politician serving as the 2nd and the current Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. He served as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Communications and Minister of State for Railways in the Government of India. Sinha was elected as Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, representing Ghazipur for three terms from the Bharatiya Janata Party. Sinha was in the race for the post of UP Chief Minister after 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.
Early life and education
Sinha has a B.Tech And M.Tech degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi (earlier called IT-BHU).[9][10] During his student days, Sinha was the students’ union president in the Banaras Hindu University.
Political career
His political career began when he was elected as the president of Banaras Hindu University Students Union in 1982. He was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1996 and repeated the term in 1999. Sinha has been a member of the BJP national council from 1989 to 1996. He was elected to the Lower House for a third term in national politics when the BJP swept the Lok Sabha elections in 2014.
Prior to joining active politics, he was a member of the General Council, School of Planning during 1999–2000. He has also been a member of committee on Energy and member of committee on Government Assurances.
He was inducted as a member of the BJP National Council in 1989. He was elected for successive terms in 1996 & 1999 and again in 2014 to the Lok Sabha from Ghazipur Constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He was made the Minister of State for the Railways Ministry in the first set of ministers inducted into Narendra Modi government in May 2014. In July 2016, during the second cabinet reshuffle, he was also made Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Communications Ministry.
