We gave Uttar Pradesh its identity back, says CM
LUCKNOW : Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said giving the state back its identity by changing the perception about Uttar Pradesh was one of the main achievements of his government in the past 30 months.
Yogi was speaking to media persons here on completion of 2.5 years of his government.
A short film, focusing on achievements of the Yogi government, which the chief minister and his team had shown to governor Anandiben Patel a few weeks ago, was played for media persons, too.
Yogi also used the occasion to release two booklets listing his government’s achievements.
He referred to the nullifying of Article 370 and the triple talaq law etc as the achievements of the first 100 days of the Modi government’s second term and said his government had completed 2.5 years in office under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and union home minister Amit Shah.
The chief minister said the BJP government, formed in the state on March 19, 2017, marked the end of the party’s 14 years in exile. “We had challenges in every field. We began work and looked at challenges as opportu
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nities…,” he said.
The achievements Yogi spoke about included the loan waiver of up to Rs 1 lakh for small and marginal farmers, payment of dues of Rs 73,000 to sugarcane growers, bringing investment, creation of jobs, downward crime graph with 36 per cent decline in rape incidents and 65 per cent decline in deaths due to encephalitis. He also said his government had brought down fiscal deficit from 3.30 per cent to 2.97 per cent and this was now within permissible limits.
Yogi lauded his team for the achievements and said there was no such task that remained unaccomplished in the past 30 months.
“There is no such task that we thought of and have not been able to accomplish. We have a team that makes every given task successful,” he said.
The chief minister said: “An action plan has been worked out to make the state a trillion-dollar economy and my government is moving ahead with the implementation of the action plan.”
About the ‘manthan’ programme involving training sessions for ministers and bureaucrats at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Lucknow, Yogi said he was sure these sessions would show good results.
On Akhilesh Yadav’s statement that the BJP government was claiming his projects as its own achievements, Yogi said the Samajwadi Party chief’s failure reflected in the success of his government.
“His failure is our achievement. This becomes more evident by the decision of people of the state to vote against the SP. The people rejected Samajwadi Party in 2014, 2017 and in 2019,” said Yogi.