Declaring that the Bharatiya Janata Party government was committed to fulfilling its promise of providing employment to youths, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the process to recruit 1.50 lakh people in government jobs would start from January 2019.

“Decks have been cleared for providing government jobs to the youths. From January 2019, the government will start recruitment of around 1.50 lakh youths. Out of this, around 69,000 jobs will be in the education sector while over 50,000 youth will get jobs in police. Some jobs are also up for grab in the health sector,” the Chief Minister said while addressing a public meeting in Nawada village in Shahjahanpur district on Sunday.

Nawada is the village where the hero of Kakori case, Thakur Roshan Singh, was born.

The Chief Minister laid the foundation stone of a degree college in that village in the memory of martyr Roshan Singh. He also laid foundation stones of Rs 250 crore worth projects for that region.

Yogi said that both the Central and the state governments were committed for the welfare of the poor and the downtrodden. “This is the only government in the annals of Uttar Pradesh that has waived farmers’ loans worth such high amount and opened wheat and paddy purchase centres to protect farmers from middlemen,” the Chief Minister said.

Talking about Nawada village, Yogi said the BJP government would develop all the villages of martyrs as model villages. He asked the local officials to set up special camps in such villages and provide houses and toilets to the poor and ration to the below poverty line (BPL) families.

“All such villages should have pucca roads, junior secondary school and inter collages,” he said.

For the increasing menace of stray cattle, the Chief Minister blamed Samajwadi Party leaders for letting lose the animals who stopped giving milk. “This is confirmed news that Samajwadi Party leaders are behind this menace. These stray animals are destroying farmers’ crop to give bad name to the government. The fact is the government has made gaushalas in each tehsil where stray cows will be kept so that they do not destroy crops,” the Chief Minister said.

Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party workers staged a protest against the visit of the Chief Minister in Nawada. The SP workers also burnt an effigy of the Chief Minister.

The SP workers wanted to go to Nawada but police detained them and released them after Yogi left Shahjahanpur.