During his visit to Gorakhpur, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath played the role of a referee, forcing lawmakers of the region to bury their differences and come out of the meeting room singing the song of unity and promising to work for the welfare of the people.

A senior office-bearer of the state Bharatiya Janata Party told this reporter on Sunday that the visit of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to Gorakhpur had ended the week-long dispute between party parliamentarian and legislators following transfer of an assistant engineer of the Public Works Department (PWD).

“The first thing that the CM did after reaching Gorakhpur was to call all the legislators and MPs for a meeting and asked them to shed their differences and work unitedly for the development of the area,” the BJP leader said.

Yogi Adityanath also spoke separately to all the people’s representatives to know the problem of their constituencies and assured them that these would be resolved.

“We successfully eradicated Japanese encephalitis and now we have to look for a solution to the ravaging floods and water-logging in the region,” he told the legislators and parliamentarians.

After the meeting, the MLAs and MPs came out satisfied and presented a united face.

Gorakhpur MP Ravi Kishan told media persons that the CM had asked all the people’s representatives to be united as such disputes only maligned the image of the party and the government.

“The CM asked us to go to our constituencies and work for the people,” he said.

BJP’s Gorakhpur Sadar MLA, Dr Radha Mohan Das Agarwal, who was served show-cause notice by the party after his public post on corruption and other irregularities, also looked satisfied and said that there was no dispute over the transfer of PWD  assistant engineer KK Singh.

“It was just a discussion and nothing else. But everyone calls it a dispute between us,” he stated.

The dispute started after Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who holds the PWD portfolio, transferred the assistant engineer to Lucknow on the recommendation of Dr Agarwal following water-logging in two housing colonies.

But Ravi Kishan and four BJP MLAs came out in support of the engineer and demanded that the transfer of the engineer be cancelled.

But it seems the CM’s intervention has helped in cooling the frayed tempers. However, the engineer concerned has been attached to the  PWD headquarters in Lucknow.