Firoz Shah discontinued many unfair taxes. He wrote, "In former reigns they used to collect frivolous, unlawful, and unjust cesses at the public treasury. [.] I had all these abolished and removed from the accounts"
Beware, You are in Lucknow All roads were always open to this city
According to a cartoon released recently on social media by the Uttar Pradesh office of the BJP, farmers at least are not welcome in Lucknow today.
The cartoon shows a kisan-like figure who has browbeaten another figure called Delhi, being stopped on his way to Lucknow by a strongman.
The warning reads that the kisan should beware before coming to Lucknow as he could be caught and dragged by the hair by a wrist wrapped in a string of rudraksh beads and clad in saffron.
How ironic is that? Now a kisan must think twice before travelling to UP, a state where nearly 70 percent of the population is engaged in agricultural work. Agriculture was once the backbone of the economy here, as the wealth produced by farmers propelled this fertile part of the Indo-Gangetic plain towards such prosperity that it became the envy of the world.
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