by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Yogi Adityanath
Lucknow : In a big relief to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the Allahabad High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition seeking permission to prosecute him in a 2007 rioting case.
The plea was filed by Rashid Khan who alleged that Adityanath, then the Lok Sabha Member from Gorakhpur, incited a mob into vandalising a ‘mazaar’ belonging to Muslims.
Advocate General Raghvendra Singh challenged the maintainability of the plea, saying as the police has filed a chargesheet, the petitioner has no right to file a case.
Earlier, the additional chief judicial magistrate court had taken cognizance of the chargesheet and dismissed the case. Following this, the petitioner approached the High Court.
On December 2017, Justice V.K. Narayan heard the petition and reserved the order which was finally pronounced on Thursday.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business, Emerging Businesses, Investing
Kumar Mangalam Birla
Lucknow : Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla called on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at his official residence on Tuesday and discussed investment opportunities in the state, an official said.
The Chief Minister informed Birla about the various facilities being offered to investors by the state government for setting up business in the state.
Adityanath pointed out that the present government had spruced up the law and order machinery along with strengthening the infrastructure facilities in Uttar Pradesh.
He also apprised the eminent businessman of how the state had implemented sector-wise policies under the Industrial Investment and Employment Promotion Policy, also assimilating within attractive provisions for establishing industry in the state.
The Chief Minister also extended an invitation to Birla to attend the investors’ meet to be held in the state capital in February.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Yogi Adityanath
Lucknow : The Uttar Pradesh government presented a supplementary budget of Rs 11,388.17 crore for the financial year 2017-18 in the state assembly on Monday.
This is the first supplementary budget of the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
Of the major proposed allocations in the budget, Rs 58 crore has been earmarked for the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti scheme, Rs 200 crore for payment to sugarcane growers and Rs 164 crore for the police department, largely for modernisation, and Anti-Terrorism Squad and Special Task Force.
It also proposed an allocation of Rs 4 crore for the Purvanchal Expressway, Rs 1.3 crore for the International Buddhist Institute and Rs 7 crore for payment of power dues in state prisons.
The government has proposed a budgetary allotment of Rs 425 crore for medical colleges in the state and Rs 522 crore for the Swachh Bharat Mission.
Apart from this, Rs 200 crore has been proposed for the Civil Aviation Department, Rs 11 crore for the Kailash Mansarovar building to be built in Ghaziabad, Rs 84 crore for minority welfare, Rs 40 crore for roads leading to the fabled Kashi Vishwanath temple, Rs 1,125 crore for the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and Rs 12 crore for strengthening of the Ram Ghat in Chitrakoot and other pilgrim hotspots.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Agra : The Taj Mahal, one of the wonders of the world, is an architectural marvel and it doesn’t matter who constructed it, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Thursday.
“It is an architectural marvel built by the blood and sweat of the local people,” the Chief Minister told a public meeting here, once again distancing his government from BJP leaders who had dubbed the 17th century Mughal monument a “blot” on Indian culture.
Addressing the crowd at the GIC ground for more than an hour, he said his government would make all efforts to boost tourism-related activities so as to increase the duration of stay of the tourists in Agra and also to up the number of their arrivals.
Adityanath accused the previous government of not doing much for tourism promotion.
He said his government was firmly committed to developing the required infrastructure. At the same time, religious tourism would receive high priority in nearby Mathura and Vrindavan, he said.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh is committed to promoting religious tourism in the state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Monday after undertaking a five-kilometre long ‘parikrama’ of the Kamadgiri temple at Chitrakoot.
On the second day of his visit to Chitrakoot, Adityanath took many by surprise when he decided to walk the entire five kilometre stretch around the temple called ‘Panchkosi Parikrama’.
Later, amending his scheduled programme, he went to meet holy men from the Nirmohi Akhada on the banks of Mandakini.
Refusing to take a seat specially kept for him, Adityanath sat on the floor, like other holy men, and said that he being a saintly person did not require VIP treatment.
The holy men handed over a memorandum to the Chief Minister, who said all their demands would be accepted by the government.
He said Mandakini was a holy river and efforts would be made to ensure it was kept pollution free.
He said the area would be a ‘no power cut zone’ and would get 24×7 electric supply.
The Chief Minister declared that the Madhya Pradesh-Uttar Pradesh border would be declared a free zone to make it easy for people to visit Chitrakoot.
—IANS
