Ropar school having links with Lala Lajpat Rai named after him
Ropar, January 28
The government has rechristened the name of Government Primary School (Boys) in the town after the name of freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai on his birth anniversary.
Lala Lajpat Rai had reportedly studied in this school till Class VI. The new name of the school will be Freedom Fighter Lala Lajpat Rai Government Primary School.
Interestingly, a stone with the information that the freedom fighter studied here is displayed on the main gate of the school since a long time. Chadha said he started enquiring about it from schoolteachers and local historians, but they had no clue.
He said that on searching, he found a book in a local library, which had details about Lajpat Rai’s father Munshi Radha Krishan, an Urdu and Persian teacher, who taught in the school for eight years.
