CM Yogi visits Gorakhpur Zoo to welcome two newly arrived Rhinos

Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath paid a visit to the Shaheed Ashfaq Ullah Khan Zoo, Gorakhpur, on Friday to welcome the two rhinos which arrived from Assam on 16 March 2022.

During his visit to meet the rhinos, namely Har and Gauri, the CM fed them with bananas.

The Gorakhpur Zoo, named after the great freedom fighter Ashfaqullah Khan, is the third in the state after Kanpur and Lucknow. The CM at the zoo’s inauguration ceremony assured it to be a new identity of development that can serve as a medium of tourism and means of employment.

मुख्यमंत्री श्री @myogiadityanath जी महाराज आज ‘शहीद अशफाक उल्ला खां प्राणी उद्यान’ गोरखपुर में… pic.twitter.com/6ONP6jGTAd

— Yogi Adityanath Office (@myogioffice) March 18, 2022

It came as a big Holi gift to the people of Purvanchal which is projected to become the centre of knowledge and entertainment, he said.

CM Yogi named the zoo in the name of the great martyr of the Kakori incident, Ashfaqullah Khan, and stated that the Kakori incident and Gorakhpur had an unbreakable relationship.

आज मुख्यमंत्री श्री @myogiadityanath जी महाराज ने गोरखपुर स्थित शहीद अशफाक उल्ला खां प्राणी उद्यान में भ्रमण किया।

इस अवसर पर महाराज जी द्वारा प्राणी उद्यान में पौधरोपण भी किया गया। pic.twitter.com/fQS60qBwmx

— Yogi Adityanath Office (@myogioffice) March 18, 2022

The immortal freedom fighter Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, also the mastermind of the Kakori incident, was kept in Gorakhpur jail and hanged there, for which his memorial is also built in the jail by the state government.