Yogi Adityanath will take oath as chief minister at 4 pm today at Lucknow’s Ekana Stadium along with 48 ministers; 7 to 8 women as well.
Yogi Adityanath will take oath as Chief Minister today at Ekana Stadium along with the other ministers and the oath ceremony will be held at 4 pm. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be present in the swearing-in ceremony. Yogi Adityanath himself has invited Mulayam Singh, Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati to attend the function.
On this day, Friday, March 25, 2022, 48 ministers will take oath along with CM Yogi Adityanath and also 7 to 8 women are to become ministers in the new cabinet.
There are reports of the return of some old ministers and young faces getting recognition also. It is reported from sources that the MLAs and party leaders who are to be sworn in as ministers, have started getting calls from Raj Bhavan.
There is great excitement along the workers before the swearing-in of CM Yogi Adityanath. A large number of workers who reached the BJP office from different areas of the state welcomed the return of CM Yogi with songs. The activists said that Bulldozer Baba has changed the picture of the state with the rule of law, women’s safety and poor welfare.
Late night, a list of more than 4 dozen ministers was sent to the Raj Bhavan. Sources say that there are 45 to 47 names in the list of ministers. Ministers taking oath will be called after 8:30 am. Information is coming that this time also there will be only two deputy CMs in UP.
It is believed that preference will be given to young MLAs in the cabinet. Kesriyamay Lucknow, CMs of 12 states will come Many Union ministers including PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President JP Nadda, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will be present in Yogi Adityanath’s oath ceremony, along with CMs of 12 states and 5 deputy CMs will also be present. The occasion is historic, so the entire Lucknow has been painted saffron. Big hoardings have been put up at every intersection.
Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will participate in Friday’s event. Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and 60 other business tycoons have also been invited. Roads leading to Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, the venue for the event, have been decorated with lights. Cut-outs of Modi, Shah and Adityanath are in place.
Samajwadi Party president-chief Akhilesh Yadav and Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary, who fought the polls as allies, said they won’t attend the event. Invites were sent to the state’s opposition leaders, UP BJP general secretary J P S Rathore confirmed to PTI.
Adityanath has personally sent invitations to over 50 seers, including those from Ayodhya, Mathura, and Varanasi, party leaders said. Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s state-level functionary Dinesh Shankar said prominent seers, along with members of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, have been invited. Yoga guru Ramdev, “The Kashmir Files” director Vivek Agnihotri and actor Anupam Kher are on the list.
The venue has the capacity to accommodate 50,000 people. About 8,000 police personnel will be deployed for the event, an official said. At the MLAs’ meeting, Amit Shah said Uttar Pradesh faced political instability for a long time due to “casteist and dynastic parties”.
“In the past 37 years, no party got full majority again in Uttar Pradesh, he said, referring to his party’s trend-breaking two-time victory. It is historic that the BJP is the only party which got over two-thirds of the seats for the second consecutive time,” the home minister added.
Amit Shah said Adityanath ended politicization of administration and decriminalized politics assuring everyone that law and order will come into action if someone files a complaint. Adityanath said he had no administrative experience when he became chief minister for the first time and thanked Modi and Shah for guiding him to provide good governance in Uttar Pradesh.
“People for the first time felt that houses for the poor could also be built. For the first time, it was felt that money could go directly into the accounts of the poor,” he said. Festivals can now be celebrated in a peaceful manner, he added.
Adityanath on Thursday became the first chief minister to retain power in Uttar Pradesh since the 1985 assembly elections. He is also the only chief minister of Uttar Pradesh with a full five years in the office to win the subsequent election and retain it.
A Little About His Life and Rise to Politics
He was born on 5 June 1972 in a Gharwali Rajput family in Uttarakhand. His real name is Ajay Singh Bisht. His father, Anand Singh Bisht was a forest ranger. He completed his primary education at the local schools of Pauri and Rishikesh. He obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University.
Around 1990, he joined the Ayodhya Ram temple movement and became the disciple of the head priest of Gorakhnath Math Mahant Avaidyanath. Later, he was titled ‘Yogi Adityanath’ and also succeeded Mahant Avaidyanath.
Mahant Avaidyanath named Yogi Adityanath his successor in around 1994 and became the head priest of the Gorakhnath Math. Therefore, he was also named as the successor of Gorakhnath Math. Then, it was his duty to manage schools, colleges, and hospitals which were run by Gorakhnath Trust Fund.
In 1994, he was appointed as the head priest of Gorakhnath Math. After four years, he was elected to the Lower House of the Indian Parliament. In the 12th Lok Sabha, he was the youngest member. He has been elected to the Parliament from Gorakhpur for five consecutive years. He also started a youth wing named Hindu Yuva Vahini.
1998 – He was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha and became the youngest member to be elected at the age of 26.
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