Reflecting on his homecoming, Shukla added with a smile, “Since I landed in Lucknow round 7:30 this morning, I should have clicked about 2,000 selfies. The well-known saying, ‘Muskuraiye, Aap Lucknow Mein Hain’, actually got here alive for me at the moment.”
Adityanath, who felicitated Shukla within the presence of ISRO Chairman V Narayanan, deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, and state BJP president Bhupendra Chaudhary, introduced a scholarship within the astronaut’s title for college kids of Uttar Pradesh aspiring to check house expertise.