Omar takes jibe at UP govt for 'dropping' Taj Mahal from tourism booklet

Srinagar, Oct 3: Taking a jibe at Uttar Pradesh government for dropping Taj Mahal from the tourism booklet on key attractions in the state, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said does anyone believe people will forget that the monument exists just because it was left out of a brochure. “Does anyone believe people will forget the @TajMahal exists just because @UPGovt decides to leave it out of a tourism promotion brochure?” Mr Abdullah, who is the working president of National Conference (NC), wrote on micro-blogging site twitter. A 32-page glossy booklet titled 'Uttar Pradesh Paryatan-Apaar Sambhavanaayein' (UP Tourism-Unlimited Possibilities), was released by the state government on World Tourism Day in Lucknow. But, interestingly, Taj Mahal, one of the World's Seven Wonders, found no spot in the brochure. The government dismissed the allegations that Taj Mahal was deliberately dropped from the booklet. However, dropping of the monument from the booklet has stirred up a controversy in the wake up of UP CM Yogi Adityanath's statement in June this year that ‘the Ramayana and the Gita represent Indian culture, not the Taj Mahal’. UNI