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The Return to Roots

The India Today Kumbh round table discusses the event which for many devout Hindus symbolises the intellectual essence and unity of India.

While inaugurating the India Today round table on the Kumbh, 'Confluence of Minds', at Lucknow's Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath said the Kumbh "symbolises the confluence of three rivers, the holy Ganga which represented the ancient tradition and heritage of India, the Yamuna representing modernity, and the invisible Saraswati, representing wisdom." Speaking a day after the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party had formally stitched up an alliance here, Adityanath, raking up the internal differences within the SP, said, "Younger brother Shivpal Yadav has already offered (party patriarch) Mulayam Singh Yadav a ticket from his party (the newly formed Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party-Lohia). Also, son Akhilesh Yadav needs to tell the public whether he

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