Kanpur: A father-son duo from Uttar Pradesh’s Udayrampur Nagla village have both been selected to the state police force after clearing the constable recruitment exam together.
Both Yashpal Nagar, 40, and his 21-year-old son, Shekhar Nagar, received the appointment letters together at an appointment ceremony in Lucknow on Sunday.
Their achievement brought cheer to the Dhaulana tehsil village, where villagers welcomed them with garlands and fanfare.
Yashpal Nagar joined the Army Ordnance Corps in 2003 and retired in 2019 after serving for 16 years. After this, he started preparing for the police recruitment examination with his son, Shekhar. In 2024, both of them took the same exam and passed.
Shekhar said that he and his father used to go to the village library and study regularly. “Both of us worked hard together. The combined effect of Papa’s discipline and my technical notes was that both of us were able to pass the exam,” he told ThePrint.
Shekhar also said that he has been preparing for the UP Police, Civil Defence Services (CDS) and sub-inspector exams for more than two years. His mother is a homemaker, his sister is studying, and his younger brother has passed class 12.
Vishal Sharma, vice-president of social organisation Hindustani Biradari, said the achievement was reminiscent of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his father, Pandit Krishna Bihari Lal Vajpayee, who studied in the same class in law college in 1945.
“In 1945, when Atal ji arrived at DAV College in Kanpur to study LLB, he found that his father had also taken admission in the same class. Atal ji and his father lived in the same hostel room and studied in the same class,” Sharma told ThePrint.
“If his father ever came late, the professor would jokingly ask, ‘Where is your father?’ And if Atal ji was absent, his father would be asked, ‘Your sahabzaade (son) hasn’t come today?’ Eventually, Atal ji moved to a separate section,” he added.
(Edited by Sugita Katyal)