India, Sept. 9 -- GORAKHPUR Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday urged people to shed the "slave mindset" and emphasised the need for an education system rooted in Indian values, culture and devotion to the nation. He asserted that education is the key to building a self-reliant India.

He emphasised that prosperity depends first on education, followed by health, agriculture, water resources, skill development, employment and environmentally balanced development.

"(Earlier) a tendency had cropped up, and the slave mindset had engulfed the country in such a way that every Indian started feeling that an Indian should be looked down upon, while a foreigner should be looked (up) from the affluence ('sampannata') point of view. You have ...