Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that festivals had replaced nuisance and disorder in Uttar Pradesh today.
“The atmosphere of fear and panic is over now. People celebrate festivals peacefully and with joy. Now there is no curfew, instead Kanwar yatras are taken out peacefully,” he added.
Addressing a public meeting at Shahjahanpur to seek votes for Bharatiya Janata Party’s mayoral candidate Archana Verma as well as others in the upcoming second round of polling for urban local bodies polls to be held on May 11, Yogi said Shahjahanpur was no longer identified by piles of garbage, but with Smart City and Hanumat Dham.
Describing Shahjahanpur as a land of great revolutionaries like Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan and Thakur Roshan Singh who raised an army of freedom fighters, Yogi said that a museum was being built in Shahjahanpur to preserve their memories.
The chief minister appealed to people to vote to add a third engine to the double-engine government so that funds allocated for development projects were utilised in the best possible manner.
Stressing that there would be no dearth of funds for development works, the chief minister added that a good board should be formed from municipal corporation to municipality and nagar panchayat levels.
The chief minister said that the country was changing under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the global prestige of the country going up remarkably. He added that Prime Minister Modi was a global leader.
“Today the whole world is looking towards India with hope. Uttar Pradesh is moving ahead with the vision of the prime minister. Free Covid vaccine was given in India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. COVID-19 is under our control today. Despite having a much greater per capita income than India, even Europe and America could not give free doses of Covid vaccines. Uttar Pradesh is number one in Swachh Bharat Mission today. In India 50 crore people were provided health insurance under Ayushman Bharat while 80 crore people were provided free ration. Crores of people were given free cooking gas connections,” he pointed out.
The chief minister said that Shahjahanpur was declared a municipal corporation and then included in the State Smart City Scheme. He added that the city would be connected to Ganga Expressway while a ropeway facility was being arranged in Hanumat Dham.
The chief minister said that for the first time municipal elections were being held in Shahjahanpur. He said efforts were being made to provide the benefits of the basic facilities of urban development to the people. “With the formation of the municipal corporation, the GDP (gross domestic product) of the district will increase giving a boost to the economy,” the chief minister said.
The chief minister said that Public Works Department Minister Jitin Prasada was laying a network of six-lane and four-lane roads around Shahjahanpur whereas a bypass had been made to overcome the problem of traffic jams.
“Shahjahanpur has become a safe city with an Integrated Command Control Centre. A total of 21,000 people were given free accommodation facilities in Shahjahanpur while 11,000 benefitted from Pradhan Mantri SVANidhi Yojana. Pension facility was given to 1.2 lakh elderly people. Golden cards were made available to 8,913 people under the Ayushman Yojana. Besides, 25 electric buses are running in Shahjahanpur. Clean water is being supplied to every household with Rs 350 crore under the Amrit Yojana. Multi-level parking has been built at a cost of Rs 51 crore,” the chief minister pointed out.
