The Yogi Adityanath government has shelved the proposal to celebrate its third anniversary in office in a grand style because of coronovirus threat. Now the anniversary will be a subdued event, reduced to a press conference of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
The Yogi government completes three years in office on March 19.
A senior official told The Pioneer here on Sunday that on March 19, the chief minister would hold a press conference and also distribute a booklet highlighting achievements of his government.
In 2018, the Yogi government had celebrated its first anniversary in a grand style by showcasing the cultural diversity of the state. In 2019, the celebrations were cancelled because of imposition of model code of conduct in view of the Lok Sabha election. That time, the chief minister had held a press conference at party office.
“This year, the chief minister will address the media at his 5, Kalidas Marg residence or at Lok Bhawan,” the official said.
Earlier in the day, the chief minister held a meeting with state ministers and information officers and gave them guidelines on spreading the message of good governance down to the village level.
Meanwhile, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party said that party national president JP Nadda had asked all the state units to cancel organisational programmes in view of coronavirus scare.
Party’s general secretary Vidya Sagar Sonkar said that a proposed meeting on cane, dairy and cooperative sector to be held at the state BJP state headquarters on Monday stood cancelled.
The BJP has proposed a mass contact programme from March 19 to 26 to make people aware of the achievements of the state government. It was not clear whether the party has cancelled that contact programme also.
“We are waiting for directives from state leadership,” a BJP leader said.