Taj Mahal fails to find place in UP tourism booklet

October 02, 2017 19:24

The monument which attracts tourists from across the globe to Uttar Pradesh and is also the only Indian structure featuring among the Seven Wonders of the World, the Taj Mahal, has failed to find a spot in the states latest tourism booklet.

The booklet, Uttar Pradesh Paryatan Apaar Sambhavnayen, published by the UP tourism department, was released on World Tourism Day.

Almost all tourist spots in Uttar Pradesh have been covered in the booklet. The Uttar Pradesh government later clarified that they would include a picture of the Taj Mahal in the booklet.

In June this year, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had said that according to him, the Ramayana and Bhagwad Gita represent the Indian culture and not the Taj Mahal.

The Adityanath-led BJP governments first state budget for 2017-18 had also made no mention of the Taj Mahal in its special section Hamari Sanskritik Virasat (Our Cultural Heritage) that was incorporated in the finance ministers 63-page statement.

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