Officials said that the new policy would help the government to expand the public health infrastructure in urban areas and ensure that health centres are not constructed in far-off places, but instead in populated areas
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath told officials to “take such an action against those guilty that it sets an example so that no one commits a crime or take law into their hands in future”.
The Indian Express, however, has learnt that the road is part of a larger project conceptualised by the state government to transform the river bank opposite the old ghats.
Congress leader and former MLA from Rampur, Kazim Ali Khan, has said that he would back the BJP candidate since he has not been allowed to contest the election.
Jitin Prasada said, "While monitoring and maintenance guidelines for certain roads already exist, we are planning to come up with a 5-year monitoring and maintenance policy for all kinds of roads... which will help fix responsibilities."
While delivering a speech later, Modi said that Kovind told him he had come to the helipad personally since the Prime Minister was an “atithi (guest) of his village”.
On Akhilesh’s remark that BJP leaders think only about “gobar” (cow dung), Adityanath said that while Akhilesh on one hand talks about farming, he smells badbu (bad smell) in cow dung.
“In the education index, UP is fourth from the bottom. This is the level of education in the state which gave so many prime ministers to the country,” Akhilesh said while speaking during a discussion on the state Budget.
All three are seen to carry the stamp of Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, with both Pratapgarhi, 34, and Tiwari, 69, belonging to the same district of Pratapgarh.
Last week, the UP Assembly became only the second in the country, after Nagaland, to come on board NeVA (National e-Vidhan Application), whereby all Assemblies will come on a single digital platform.
So fulsome was Yogi Adityanath's praise for Shivpal Yadav, including asking Akhilesh Yadav to learn about Ram Manohar Lohia from him, that Akhilesh shot back saying he was glad that his “chacha (uncle)” was now the CM's “chaha” too.
The religious, cultural and regional focus of the Rs 6 lakh crore budget was evident as the CM spoke as how the government aimed at presenting to the world the upcoming Maha Kumbh as a “unique event”, referring to it as the biggest “spiritual and cultural gathering”.
With Rs 6,15,518.97 crore total outlay, it is the biggest budget of Uttar Pradesh till date. The Adityanath government had presented a Rs 5,50,270.78-crore budget for the last financial year.
Raising the issue of crime against women and the law and order situation in the state during the Zero Hour, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav hit out at the BJP government over its claim of “zero tolerance” toward crime.