A few days after Art of living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar met Chief Minister and held discussions on resolving the vexed Ayodhya issue, Yogi Adityanath said that the solution to this issue could be found only through judicial intervention as there was not much time left for dialogue.
“There is no question of an out-of-court settlement as hearing will start in the Supreme Court shortly. Sri Sri is not a party in the Ayodhya issue but everyone has the right to say what they think about the issue and he was only doing that ,” he said at a function of a private news channel in lucknow on Monday.
Yogi said that his meeting with Sri Sri was merely a courtesy call and it had nothing to do with the Ayodhya issue.
When asked about Samajwadi Party’s claims that he had inaugurated previous government’s projects, the CM said that most of the projects which theprevious regime initiated were incomplete when the BJP came to power.
“It was BJP which completed these projects wuthin six months. If the SP was in power then these projects would have required six more years to complete,” he said.
Claiming that the law and order situation in the state had improved in the last few months, the CM said, “We have promised to give security to every citizen of the state and we will fulfill our promises. Any one who tries to take the law into their hand would not be spared. The era of political interference in policing has ended resulting in better policing.”
About civic election, Yogi said that the BJP will do well in these elections. On Gujarat, he said that the would do even better and sweep the Assembly elections.
Reacting to the controversy leading to dispute over Bollywood film ‘Padmavati, the Chief Minister said that people should not distort history for their own benefit. “The UP government has already informed the Centre about distortions in film,” he informed.
On his government’s decision to make roads “gaddha mukt” (pothole free), Yogi said that because of paucity of raw material, the work was stalled for some time.
“When the BJP came to power 1,21,000 km roads roads were full of gadhdha (potholes). We were able to make 90,000 km road as pot hole free. The remaining road will be made pot-hole free by December 30,” he assured.
Yogi also declared that his government will start a campaign to free illegal encroachments. “Over 43,000 hectare land has been identified and soon a campaign would be launched against llegal squatters,” Yogi said.