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Elections are festival of democracy in India. All villages in Uttar Pradesh are awash with the colors of flags and posters with the symbols of the political parties. The election battle is in full swing 200 million inhabitants of India’s most populous state (Uttar pradesh) are called upon, from 11 February to 8 March, to elect a new legislative assembly.
On the sideline of election coverage our reporters got a chance to have a glimpse of the city and its people. In this package of “Dangal Ke Rang”, Ramesh Awasthy editor, Samay UP/Uttrakhand channel brings us different flavors and colors of Gazipur district.
Ghazipur is well known for its opium factory, established by the British East India Company in 1820 and still the biggest legal opium factory in the world, producing the drug for the global pharmaceutical industry.
Gazipur is once known as communist baston, its the land of Sarjoo Pandey freedom fighter and leader of the Communist Party of India. Pandey was a member of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Lok Sabha. He was elected to the 2nd and 3rd Lok Sabha from Rasra constituency in 1957 and 1962 and to the 4th and 5th Lok Sabha from Ghazipur constituency in 1967 and 1971. When he was elected to the Lok Sabha, Jawaharlal Nehru in the Parliamnent presented him a rose, which he then carried in his coat.
The first Scientific Society of India was established first in Ghazipur in 1862 by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan for propagating modern Western knowledge of science, technology and industry.

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