| Governor Ram Naik and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath paid floral tributes to Uttar Pradesh’s first Chief Minister Govind Ballabh Pant on his birth anniversary on Monday.
The Governor and the Chief Minister paid tributes at the statue of Pant at Lok Bhawan .
In his speech, Naik said that the contribution of the great leader would be remembered for ever while Yogi said that Pant was instrumental in the recognition of Hindi as the national language.
“As the first Chief Minister of the state, his contribution cannot be forgotten,” he said.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav also went to Lok Bhawan to pay tributes to the first Chief Minister of UP.