Expecting announcement of the Lok Sabha election schedule any time after March 8, the ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government have been asked to lay the foundation stones of the proposed development projects and dedicate to nation all projects that have been completed so that the ruling party may go to the people with a positive report card.
In the next few days, the state will witness a spree in launch of projects. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in the groundbreaking ceremony in which foundation stones of over Rs 60,000 crore projects approved during the UP Investors’ Summit would be laid. The function will be held in Kanpur.
The same day, the Prime Minister will inaugurate the commercial operation of Lucknow Metro from CCS Airport at Amausi to Munshipulia and lay foundation stone for construction of Metro rail in Kanpur.
In Lucknow, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will flag off Lucknow Metro on its new route.
On March 7, Union Surface Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari along with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will either lay foundation stones or dedicate projects worth approximately Rs 1 lakh crore that include elevated road between Lucknow and Kanpur, to be known as Greenfield Expressway.
Two flyovers of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), including one in Tedhi Pulia and the other connecting IIM with IET crossing, would be dedicated to nation.
Diwakar Tripathi, the representative of MP from Lucknow, Rajnath Singh, said other projects concerning different parts of the state would also be dedicated or their foundation stones would be laid the same day.
“The same day, the Kukrail flyover, a state government project, will also be thrown open to the public,” he said.
Similarly, other ministers of the state government have been asked to speed up the inauguration or foundation laying of projects.
Fisheries Minister Jai Prakash Nishad will lay foundation stones of several projects in Mirzapur while Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma will lay foundation stones of sub-stations on March 7.
BJP state general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said the party was going to the people with its report card. He said the Prime Minister had already presented the report card of his government’s performance in last five years and now Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was telling people what his government had done in the last two years.
“Our election campaign is pro-active. We are asking people to vote for BJP on our performance. Our party workers are telling people what the state and the Central governments have done for the masses. This is our asset,” said Pathak, who is an MLC.