A critic of Modi’s Namami Gange plan, Vishwambhar Nath Mishra tells Archis Mohan he’s willing to contest against the PM as the common candidate of a united opposition this election
Elections:Vishwambhar Nath Mishra, 53, is a teacher at the bureau of gadgets designing, Indian Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University, and one of the chief faultfinders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Namami Gange’ venture and the advancement work attempted in Varanasi the previous five years.
Mishra is additionally the mahant, or esteemed minister, of Varanasi’s well known Sankat Mochan Hanuman sanctuary, built up in the sixteenth century by artist holy person Goswami Tulsidas, the creator of Ramacharitamanas.
Mishra likewise runs the Sankat Mochan Foundation that his dad, Veer Bhadra Mishra, established in the mid 1980s with the goal of cleaning the Ganga. His dad resigned as a teacher of pressure driven designing and headed the structural building branch of at the IIT (BHU). He passed away in 2013, matured 74.
The establishment presented a complete arrangement to clean the Ganga to the Varanasi community experts in 1997. It was an option in contrast to the administration’s Ganga Action Plan, propelled by then head administrator Rajiv Gandhi in 1986. Mishra says the establishment has battled from that point forward to actualize the arrangement, yet neither the past governments nor Modi government’s ‘Namami Gange’ has tended to the key issues.
In a discussion with Archis Mohan, Mishra said Varanasi needs a ‘nearby’ to speak to it in the Lok Sabha, and showed his ability to challenge against Modi if he somehow managed to be the regular competitor of a unified resistance. Varanasi cast a ballot on May 19.
Aditi Mehta 