Lucknow: Asserting that the anti-national forces are using social media to spread rumours and mislead people, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that online platforms have become a medium for conspiracies against the country.Addressing the inaugural programme of ‘Kakori Train Action Centenary Celebrations’ at Kakori, Yogi said, “There is a conspiracy to keep the present generation from taking pride in many of the country’s revolutionaries. “After Independence, institutions were named after members of “one khandaan”, but after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in 2014, many freedom fighters are getting their due.”The CM also appealed to people to hoist the national flag at every home on Independence Day and ensure that ‘Vande Mataram’ is sung at institutions.“India did not become enslaved without reason. India’s slavery was due to our internal divisions and conspiracies against us. Even today, certain forces are working to weaken India in the name of caste, region and language are continuing such conspiracies,” he said.“These conspiracies now have a third medium – the social media platform. All anti-India forces are misusing this platform to create rumours against India, misuse it and make a malicious attempt to mislead society through such conspiracies,” he said.The CM said those who kept the younger generation away from the country’s revolutionaries and heroes had committed a great injustice to them.“Not giving a young person an opportunity to take pride in his heroes is like distancing him from his ideals. It is like cutting off his sources of inspiration,” he said.He claimed that after Independence, revolutionaries like Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh, Ashfaqulla Khan, Chandrashekhar Azad, Veer Savarkar, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were deliberately kept out of public memory.“There was a conspiracy to ensure that the names of these revolutionaries did not reach the present generation,” he said.The CM credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s govt with beginning efforts after 2014 to honour the “real heroes” of India’s freedom struggle.He said memorials associated with freedom fighters were being developed. “To give due respect to revolutionaries, the historic incident is now referred to as ‘Kakori Train Action’ instead of ‘Kakori dacoity case’,” Yogi said.
