MP CM claims Ujjain is Global Prime Meridian

While addressing the last day of Madhya Pradesh’s assembly session on Thursday, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav promised to regain the glory of the country and pushed to prove that ‘Ujjain is the global Prime Meridian’. He further claimed to ‘correct the time of the world’.

The newly elected chief minister stated that some 300 years back, India set the standard time of the world and that an instrument to establish the fact was still available in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain.

“Ever since our government has been formed, we are moving forward with many such agendas. 300 years ago, Indian time standard was acknowledged and accepted in the world. But, when we became slaves, the time standard was decided in Paris. Then for 250 years when the British became powerful, they took it from the country and positioned it to Greenwich,” said chief minister while responding to Governor Mangubhai C. Patel in the state assembly.

Criticising westernisation, Yadav said that his government would work to ‘shift the Prime Meridian’.

A Prime Meridian is a line of 0 degree longitude and is considered a starting point to measure distance both east and west around the Earth.

MP CM also questioned the beginning of a new day at 12.00 am in the assembly. He said, “No one begins their day at midnight. People either wake up with sunrise or some time later.” This scale is imposed on us to dilute Indian culture, Yadav added.

He also pressed said that the government is working for ‘lifting the respect of the country as well as the Sanatan culture in the world.’

The statement came following a suggestion made by Congress MLA Jaivardhan Singh to the CM to set time as per ‘Indian standard’ in the state. The opposition burst into laughter right after this was said. Ranting against the opposition, Yadav said “this mentality has kept us behind.”

On Monday, chief minister stated that his government is developing a plan to rejuvenate the cultural significance of religious sites throughout the state.

He mentioned that the proposed plan covers locations ranging from Mahakal Lok in Ujjain to Orchha, Salkanpur and Maihar.