Union Minister for Home Affairs and Cooperation Amit Shah.
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Patna: Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the memorial of veteran leader Kailashpati Mishra on the outskirts of Patna on Saturday.
Mishra, a senior leader of the Jana Sangh, was a minister in the Karpoori Thakur government in the state. He was also the first president of the BJP in Bihar.
He also served as the governor of Rajasthan and Gujarat. Shah inaugurated a park named after Mishra and then unveiled his statue.
He was accompanied by Governor Rajendra V Arlekar, Deputy CMs Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and other senior leaders of the state BJP.
The park has been developed on 2 acres of land donated by the Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute (ATARI).