Five-time Parliamentarian, Yogi Adityanath, was this afternoon sworn in as UP’s chief minister along with 49 ministers. The ceremony was graced by a plethora of Bharatiya Janata Party luminaries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah also attended the ceremony. It happens in Lucknow, a week after Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide victory in the assembly elections with 312 seats. The name of Mr. Adityanath was announced on Saturday evening in a surprise announcement. State BJP President Keshav Maurya and the BJP’s Vice-President Dinesh Sharma also took oath as Deputy Chief Ministers.
Yogi Adityanath is the head priest of ‘Gorakhpur Math’ and he has been winning the Gorakhpur election since 1998. After the announcement of his name for CM, he thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself was an important part of the BJP’s campaign program in Uttar Pradesh. “I will take Uttar Pradesh forward with Modi’s motto –‘sabka saath sabka vikas’,” Mr. Adityanath said after he was announced for the Chief Minister post. The politician-priest has been the party’s Hindutva mascot and consistently commissions headlines because of his frequent controversial statements.
His top controversial comments on mother Teresa, Shahrukh Khan, Yoga is well known to every Indian. But the question is that why BJP has chosen him as the CM. Opposite parties are saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to give the direction of UP in the way of Hindutva.
All top BJP leaders were present at the ceremony including BJP chief Amit Shah, L K Advani, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Murli Manohar Joshi and Venkaiah Naidu. A few Sannyasi, Sannyasinis and Sadhus also attended the swearing-in ceremony. And the interesting part is that leaders of opposite parties were also there in Adityanath’s coronation. Former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav also attended the ceremony.
The coronation ceremony of the Yogi was the culmination of a 7-phased Assembly poll spread over the last two months in Uttar Pradesh, which resulted in a landslide victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with 312 seats of the 403 Assembly seats. The BJP didn’t declare any name for the chief ministerial candidate all through the campaigning, and even until 24 hours ago.
After a suspense-filled week, at the end, yesterday evening, the BJP declared the name of senior Adityanath, for the chief minister’s post, and also declared another two chief ministers, Mr. Maurya and Mr. Sharma deputy. They will be assisting Adityanath over the next five years as deputy CMs Maurya and Sharma.
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu said it was a watershed moment for the Bharatiya Janata Party and the BJP has become a common man’s party. He said the victory is for the development of our country and the action against black money and corruption. At last, oath taking ceremony comes to an end with our National Anthem “Jana Gana Mana”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP Chief Amit Shah congratulated the UP BJP leaders.
