Press statement issued by BJP Yuva Morcha President Shri Anurag Thakur

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Young Parliamentarian Shri Anurag Thakur gets Bharat Asmita Award

Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, Member of Parliament from the Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency in Himachal Pradesh and national president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) was conferred the Bharat Asmita Jana Pratinidhi Shreshta award in Pune Thursday. Others who received the award included former Chief Election Commissioner Shri TN Seshan, noted artist Ms. Mallika Sarabhai, film person Shri Ashutosh Gowariker and author Shri Gurucharan Das. Padma Vlbhushan Dr. Vijay L. Kelkar, Former Chairman, Finance Commission, Government of India was Chief Guest at the function. 

The MIT School of Government of the Maharashtra Academy of Engineering and Educational Research (MAAER) in Pune presented the prestigious awards at the Bharat Asmita National Awards function held Thursday. “The word Dharma is much greater than religion. It means nothing but to perform our own duties. If the youngsters and others follow Dharma towards  mother and the mother land, our country will reach the place in the dreams of Swami Vivekananda,” said  Shri Seshan.

Shri Thakur was chosen for his proactive role in politics, on ground as well as in the Parliament. He is also among the new-age MPs who effectively combines sports, politics, social work and political activism to contribute in the process of nation building.

While expressing his gratitude to the MIT School and acknowledging that such recognition adds to the spirits, Shri Thakur aired his concern over the growing secessionist disturbances in Kashmir. He said, “It is surprising that Kashmir and the rest of India have two different flags.”

Shri Thakur expressed his gratitude to the people of the country for their affection and support during his recently concluded Rashtriya Ekta Yatra which started from Kolkata on January 12 and ended on Republic Day. Calling the yatra as a historic reassertion of India’s surging youth towards nation building, Shri Thakur said that his party would build on the goodwill generated during the yatra and engage in many more constructive political programmes aimed at engaging with the youth of the country. “The youth should enter politics for serving people and not for achieving money or power,” he added.

Interacting with students, Shri Thakur said that the BJYM would launch few constructive programmes for the Youth with the twin objectives of guiding them towards achieving their desired goals as well as seeking their participation in mainstream political process.

Earlier, Shri Thakur had condemned the shameful act of the US government of planting radio tags on Indian students and had demanded of the Indian government to fix immediate steps to restore the pride of the legally migrated Indian students and ensure that such occurrences are never repeated in future.

Hundreds of Indian students from the Tri-Valley University (TVU) in Pleasanton, a major suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area in USA, have been radio-tagged as part of electronic surveillance by US immigration authorities. These students face the prospect of deportation after the university – which has more than 1,200 Indian students, mostly from Andhra Pradesh – was shut down amidst charges of an immigration fraud. The passports of the students have been impounded and the navigation device has been fit on their legs to enable the authorities to track the movement of any student at any particular point of time.

The students of the university, however, in a petition filed to the US authorities, have pointed out that the university was bona fide and legitimate as it was registered with the official Student and Exchange Visitor Information System database. Students have pleaded not to be penalised with deportation for fraud, if any, was done on the part of the university in defiance of US laws and not by the students themselves.

“The USA, the high priest of universal and inalienable individual human rights, have mercilessly trampled upon the human rights of a group of innocent students who have been duped by a ‘sham’ university and have been treating them like ordinary criminals,” said Shri Thakur.

Retorting to the remark of a US consulate official in Hyderabad recently that wearing ankle monitors was “hep and happening”, Shri Thakur said that such a remark smacks of gross underestimation on the part of the US for the human rights of people from various ethnic identities who have settled in their country. “One can never justify the use of these gadgets, however sophisticated and painless they may be, to peep into the ordinary lives of innocent students,” Shri Thakur added.

National General Secretary