Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed the newly-elected MPs of the ruling party from Uttar Pradesh, highlighting how the development agenda and Narendra Modi magic was able to break caste barriers, giving a hope that Uttar Pradesh was moving ahead.
“Caste is a big speed breaker,” Yogi said, borrowing the word road breaker from Narendra Modi, who in one of his poll meetings had termed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a ‘speed breaker’.
“This election has proved that development can steamroll these speed breakers as every person is looking for basic necessities like house, road and power and the BJP government has provided all of these in the last five years without any bias of caste and creed,” the Chief Minister said.
This high-profile meeting was held at the Chief Minister’s 5, Kalidas Marg official residence, where all the newly-elected MPs from the state were present.
However, notable absentees were Prime Minister Narendra Modi (MP from Varanasi), Rajnath Singh (MP from Lucknow) and Hema Malini (MP from Mathura).
Senior leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party, including UP poll campaign in-charge JP Nadda, Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma were also present in the meeting.
Two newly-elected MPs, to whom The Pioneer spoke on Wednesday, confided that the Chief Minister spoke on the development agenda and how the party was able to break caste alliance. Yogi also gave pep talk to MPs and elaborated on do’s and don’ts and shared his experience in the Lok Sabha.
“People have high hopes and aspirations from the BJP as they know only we can carry forward the development agenda. Rising above candidate and party considerations, people this time came forward aggressively to elect the Prime Minister and this was seen all through the electioneering. It is because of this that the BJP won 303 seats on its own across the country, 64 from Uttar Pradesh alone,” Yogi said.
Giant killer Smriti Irani, who blanked Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, also attended the meeting and was one of the back benchers. Bhojpuri star Ravi Kishan, who wrested the Gorakhpur seat from the alliance, was cynosure of all eyes.
“Yogiji ki kripa se jeet hui (I won election because of the blessings of Yogiji),” Kishan told reporters.
The meeting was followed by lunch, which was a vegetarian spread.
