Jamshedpur, Dec. 15 -- The deputy chief minister of Odisha, Kanak Vardhan Singh Dev, has written a letter to Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, requesting him to constitute a chair and a scholarship at the Kolhan University in the name of Raja Arjun Singh, a noted freedom fighter from Porahat in the West Singhbhum district, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

In his letter, dated December 13, Dy CM Dev, who holds the charge of agriculture and farmers' empowerment along with the energy ministry in the Mohan Majhi Cabinet, stated, "Porahat's hero Raja Arjun Singh played a historically important role in the first freedom battle in 1857. But he has not received the expected honour that this great hero of undivided Singhbhum deserves. The...