Kanpur: The oath ceremony of Yogi Adityanath as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister will take place in Lucknow’s Ekana Stadium today. This will be the second time Yogi Adiyanath will take oath as Chief.
The Bharatiya Janata Party won a decisive majority in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. With 255 seats in its kitty, the Yogi Adityanath-led party was well past the required mark of 202 to win the right to lead the 403-seat assembly.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, JP Nadda, and BJP Chief Ministers including Shivraj Singh Chouhan, ML Khattar, Pema Khandu, Biren Singh, Jai Ram Thakur, Biplab Deb, Himanta Biswa Sarma, Basavaraj Bommai, Bhupendra Patel Pushkar Singh Dhami and Pramod Sawant will be present at the event in Lucknow.
Yogi Adityanath has become the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh to return to power after completing a full tenure of five years. Four chief ministers, however, have returned to power in Uttar Pradesh in the past but none of them was in the office for a full five-year term.
The last chief minister to win consecutive terms in Uttar Pradesh (undivided) was Narayan Dutt Tiwari in 1985. This makes Yogi Adityanath the first chief minister to retain power in 37 years.
(Vinayak)
