Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter’s 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence in the national capital on Sunday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Adityanath for a historic victory in the Uttar Pradesh elections and said that he will take the state to greater heights of development.
“Today I met Yogi Adityanath. Congratulated him on the historic victory in the Uttar Pradesh elections. In the last 5 years, he has worked tirelessly to fulfill the aspirations of the people. I am sure that in the years to come, he will take the state to greater heights of development,” PM Modi tweeted.
The Chief Minister thanked the Prime Minister for providing him with his guidance.
“The world’s most popular politician, the architect of ‘self-reliant India’, the dreamer of ‘Ek Bharat-Shreshtha Bharat’, had a warm meeting with the respected Prime Minister in New Delhi today. Heartfelt thanks to the Prime Minister for providing time and guidance from his hectic routine!” Adityanath said in a tweet.
“Congratulated Yogi Adityanath on the massive victory of BJP in UP. The way he implemented poor welfare schemes of the Centre on the ground and strengthened the law and order under the guidance of PM Narendra Modi ji, I am sure that he will continue to serve the state with the same dedicated spirit,” Amit Shah tweeted after meeting Adityanath at the former’s residence.
The Chief Minister is on a two-day visit to the national capital and met the top brass of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, to discuss government formation in the state.
He also met BJP chief J.P. Nadda and the party’s national general secretary (organisation) B.L. Santhosh later on Sunday evening. A discussion on the names of probable faces in the new state Cabinet was on the top agenda during the deliberations. The date of the swearing-in ceremony too would have been discussed.
POSSIBLE MINISTERS
It is being speculated that the BJP leadership has prepared a basic list of probable Deputy Chief Ministers and Ministers on the basis of qualification, caste and regional equations. The Central leadership will have the final say on the list.
For the post of Deputy Chief Minister, the names of Swatantra Dev Singh, Baby Rani Maurya, Brijesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya are being discussed. Swatantra Dev Singh was the Transport Minister, apart from this he was the BJP state president.
Keshav Prasad Maurya has lost from Sirathu seat in the elections but he is an important OBC face and as Deputy Chief Minister, governed the state well.
Baby Rani Maurya has been the Governor of Uttarakhand and is a well-known face of Jatav society in Uttar Pradesh. Brijesh Pathak, of the Brahmin community, has been a law minister in the Uttar Pradesh government. UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh, who is also a Kurmi leader, was one of the prominent faces behind BJP’s big win in Uttar Pradesh. Brijesh Pathak, who won from Lucknow Cantonment seat, may get the role of Deputy Chief Minister. The leadership is also considering the inclusion of two former police officers in the new cabinet, Rajeshwar Singh and Asim Arun.
The newly-elected MLA from Sarojini Nagar seat of Lucknow, Dr Rajeshwar Singh was an officer of Uttar Pradesh Police. BJP MLA Aseem Arun has won from Kannauj (Sadar) seat. Asim Arun was an officer of the rank of ADG.
Many Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have won by a huge margin of votes. In this, the candidate from Noida and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s son Pankaj Singh has won by a margin of 181,513 votes. The BJP is discussing Pankaj Singh’s inclusion in the Yogi Cabinet.
Shalabh Mani Tripathi, a Brahmin young face close to Yogi and a journalist, can be made a minister. Allies Apna Dal and Nishad Party would also get a place in the Cabinet.
Besides the new faces, older leaders like Suresh Khanna, who won with a landslide victory from the Shahjahanpur seat for the ninth consecutive time, can also be made a minister.