Highlighting how the law and order situation has improved in Uttar Pradesh over the last five years, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said, it is same state where criminals ruled the roost and used to torture people but the present government reversed the trend.
"Now the criminals are running for their lives and the tranquillity is back in society," the UP chief minister said, asserting that his government guaranteed security to the people as well as investors and now big industrialists wanted to invest in the state.
“Those accused of Muzaffarnagar riots used to be rewarded by the previous governments but now they are begging for their lives,” Yogi Adityanath said, adding that under his regime, those who had forced people to migrate from Kairana had themselves migrated out of the state and the rule of law had been established in Uttar Pradesh in five years.
Yogi was interacting with the entrepreneurs of western UP through a virtual medium on 'Aatmanirbhar Uttar Pradesh'. He called upon the businessmen and entrepreneurs to make their contributions in building a self-reliant Uttar Pradesh without any fear.
“Employment and investment prospects have gained momentum in UP. They will gain more currency after the BJP government is formed again with a thumping majority on March 10,” he said.
Expecting positive cooperation from the entrepreneurial class for the BJP in the assembly elections, Yogi said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream was to make UP a one trillion US dollar economy. “This dream can be fulfilled only with the cooperation of entrepreneurs,” he said.
He hit out at the previous Samajwadi Party government headed by Akhilesh Yadavfor the Saharanpur-Muzaffarnagar riots and said, “Between 2017, several families in Kairana had migrated due to threats of extortion and the merchant-entrepreneur society in Ghaziabad was also plagued by extortion and kidnapping. But the BJP government adopted the policy of zero-tolerance towards crime and criminals. As a result, the law and order situation has strengthened today.”
Stating that the thinking of people had changed towards UP, the chief minister maintained, “Industrial investment of lakhs of crores came to UP. Investments of Rs 66,000 crore alone came in the COVID-19 period. This created huge employment opportunities in the state and over 1.61 crore youth got employment in our MSME units in the last five years.”
The chief minister said that today the state had good connectivity in the form of Purvanchal Expressway, Delhi-Meerut Expressway, Bundelkhand Expressway, Ballia Link Expressway, Gorakhpur Link Expressway, Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway, and Ganga Expressway.
“Before 2017, one and a half airports were active in the state, today nine airports are functional, 12 new ones are being built and flights are available for 75 cities. Till 2017, UP had only 12 medical colleges, today 35 are being built. Be it the uninterrupted supply of electricity or the availability of land for industries, the government has paid attention to every need, as a result, UP has emerged as the best destination for investment in the country,’ he said.
The chief minister said that the government was making special industrial areas like Film City, Medical Device Park, Pharma Park, Plastic Park, and Toy Park in western UP.
Narrating an interesting incident from his Kairana visit, the chief minister said, “After the formation of the government in 2017, he met a family of Kairana who wanted to return but were afraid. I asked them not to be afraid as the government was with them. The family returned and I went to meet them three months ago in Kairana where I also met a girl studying in class 6 who told me that there was no problem but we had come to know that a goon was out on bail and was roaming on the crossroads.”
I asked the officials to look into the matter, and immediately the next day it was in the newspapers that the goon got his bail cancelled and went to jail again, he added. The chief minister said that UP needed such law and order and only the BJP government was capable of providing it.
The entrepreneurs, too, while speaking to the chief minister, appreciated the industrial promotion policies of the government and also put forward their expectations about future needs.
Deepak Gupta from Bulandshahr Industrial Area told the chief minister that the biggest change in five years was that children who wanted to work outside UP earlier, had started talking about living in UP today.