Chief Minister (CM) Yogi Adityanath discussed poll strategy with the senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the second day of his visit at Circuit House here on Wednesday morning. He also tried to know about the party preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha election in which the development work of the central and state government would play an important role. Apart from discussing development work with party workers, Yogi also inquired about the well-being of the people.
After this brief meeting, the CM left for Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport at Babatpur around 9 am. UP Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi also met the CM at Circuit House. During the meeting with the CM, UP Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ravindra Jaiswal, MLAs Awadhesh Singh, Saurabh Srivastava and Sushil Singh and district BJP chief and MLC Hansraj Vishwakarma were present.
Earlier, the CM also held a review meeting regarding development works and law and order situations. He directed the officials to ensure proper implementation of public welfare schemes of the government and complete the construction projects with quality within the stipulated time by running the campaign on war footing. While reviewing the preparations for the upcoming festival of Dev Deepawali, he laid special emphasis on celebrating the same in a grand manner, ensuring effective security arrangements. The CM directed the newly-appointed Vice Chairman of the Varanasi Development Authority (VDA) and Municipal Commissioner to understand the entire system and settle the pending works with immediate effect by deciding on the basis of immediate and long term.
Directing the officers further, Yogi said that the Setu Nigam (Bridge Corporation) should pay special attention to the standards while making flyovers and carry out the finishing work in all Railway Over Bridges (ROBs) and flyovers properly. He asked the Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department (PWD) to fix the responsibilities of the contractors and engineers to remove the negligence of the department. He also directed the PWD engineers not to raise the height of the roads unnecessarily while constructing the same so that rain water does not enter the roadside houses. “The development work in the city should be in accordance with the glory of Kashi,” he said.
The CM instructed the officers of Power Corporation to ensure adequate power supply during the upcoming festivals and other programmes and unnecessary vigilance raids as well as over-billing should be stopped with immediate effect. He also sought information from the Divisional Commissioner (DC) Kaushal Raj Sharma about the Govardhan Scheme and progress of the construction works for the international cricket stadium being built at Ganjari. In the review of Jal Jeevan Mission, when the District Magistrate (DM) S Rajalingam informed the CM that the work being done by the concerned agency lacks human resources so its pace of work is slow, the CM instructed the former to file an FIR against the non-working agencies apart from blacklisting them.
During the review of the medical system, Yogi first took information about dengue and viral fever Chikungunya etc and then laid emphasis on ensuring availability of doctors and essential medicines in every hospital. He also reviewed the progress of under-construction works of Amul Dairy Plant at Karkhiyaon and new Divisional Office Building. UP Minister Ravindra Jaiswal, Zila Panchayat Chairperson Poonam Maurya, Mayor Ashok Tiwari, MLC Hansraj Vishwakarma, MLAs Neelkanth Tiwari and Saurabh Srivastava, Commissioner of Police Ashok Mutha Jain and many others were also present. Later, during the late night hours Yogi visited Shri Kashi Vishwanath and Kal Bhairav temples and offered prayers there.