Modi hopes to break 2014 and 2019 records under Yogi’s leadership
The prime minister hoped of an unexpected victory for the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections attributing it to CM Yogi's commitment to good governance and development.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday announced the key portfolios for his cabinet.
UP CM Adityanath kept Home and Finance portfolios, while his deputies Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma were assigned PWD Ministry and Middle and Higher Education.
Aditynath on Tuesday met the senior leaders of the party Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president Amit Shah and Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
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According to reports, there was a tussle between Chief Minister Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya over the important home portfolio. Both Adityanath and Maurya wanted the home department and have turned to Delhi for a solution.
Adityanath was sworn in as the UP CM on March 19 and made commitment to work for the development of the state and live up to Modi’s dream of turning Uttar Pradesh into Uttam Pradesh.
“UP will be the state which our honourable Prime Minister has dreamt of, a corruption-free state, a state free of anarchy. It would be an incident free-state…Uttar Pradesh would work to make the dream of Prime Minister a reality," Adityanath said.
The Uttar Pradesh government will hold the first cabinet meeting on Wednesday headed by
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