Maulshree Seth

Bill to penalise defacement passed in Assembly.

Raising objection, members of the Opposition said it was not proper for a chief minister to use words like “dhika dunga (will see you)” “dose de dunga (will give you dose).”

A resolution was tabled a day after Rs 101 crore was proposed for the airport in the annual state budget along with other development projects for Ayodhya that included beautification of the temple town.

After the first “paperless” Budget was presented by Finance Minister Suresh Khanna in the Assembly, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the Budget in the pandemic year represented “atmanirbhar (self-reliant) Uttar Pradesh”.

Yogi Adityanath said the Budget reaffirms the government's resolve to ensure “ease of living” of the people by providing tap water and electricity to every household, water to every farm, work to every hand and making every village digital.

Samajwadi Party (SP) leaders reached the Assembly on tractors carrying sugarcane, wheat and empty diesel barrels as a mark of protest. A minor scuffle broke out between them and police, which stopped them from entering the Vidhan Bhawan with sugarcane.

She expressed her pleasure over the state tableau, titled 'Ayodhya: Cultural Heritage of Uttar Pradesh', being ranked first in the Republic Day parade, and Deepotsav in Ayodhya and Dev Deepawali in Varanasi.

Alleging that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had lost its hold on law and order in the state and failed to protect women and safeguard the interests of farmers, the Opposition MLAs raised slogans and held up placards as soon as Governor Anandiben Patel began her customary address at the joint session.

At all-party meeting, Speaker and CM urge members to maintain decorum

The PM made the remark at an online event in which he laid the foundation stones of a Maharaja Suheldev memorial and the development work of Chittaura lake in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district.

The legacy of Suheldev — who is believed to have lived c.1000 AD and defeated a purported nephew of the Turkic conqueror Mahmud of Ghazni in battle — has been claimed by political parties over the years.

With the state government showering petals on pilgrims, officials claimed that it is not for the first time that “Pushpon ki varsha” (rainfall of flower) was arranged.

Priyanka also paid a visit to Shankracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati.

The elections hold special significance as they are being held a year before the state holds Assembly polls.

Adityanath also said the under construction Purvanchal Expressway has brought “a ray of hope” for residents of Azamgarh who were denied houses on rent elsewhere three-four years ago because of the city's image.

As per the government data, the revenue of the Excise Department more than doubled to Rs 3,472 crore against last year's Rs 1,694.

Assembly sources said the state government spends about Rs 50 crore on printing and purchase of paper each year.

With an agitation against the new farm laws underway at the borders of Delhi for well over two months now, PM Modi listed the initiatives taken by his government over the past six years to make farmers self-reliant.

The decision was taken at a meeting held at the official residence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday. Officials were asked to immediately prepare a plan to train all MLAs and ensure that the state Budget is made paperless as well.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech announced to spend around Rs 2 lakh crore on healthcare with Rs 35,000 crore on Covid-19 vaccine development and inoculation.

The tableau of Tripura was adjudged the second best followed by Uttarakhand’s at third.

Former Uttar Pradesh chief ministers Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav have appealed to the central government to withdraw the three contentious farm laws.

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At a meeting on intellectuals later in the day, the BJP chief and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath targeted the Opposition, saying its leaders were still in “quarantine”.