Yogi Adityanath Takes Oath As UP CM For 2nd Term; PM, Shah Attend Event
Mumbai: BJP leader Yogi Adityanath took oath as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second straight term on Friday in Lucknow in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.
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All chief ministers of the BJP-ruled states also attended the event, along with union ministers, industrialists, and ministers of other states. Anurag Thakur, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Narendra Singh Tomar, Dharmendra Pradhan, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Bhupendra Yadav, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Smriti Irani, Hardeep Singh Puri, Annapurna Yadav, and Shobha Karanjale were present.
With this, Adityanath became the first incumbent UP CM to return to power in nearly 40 years.
A grand swearing-in ceremony was organized at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Friday. Extensive preparations were going on since Thursday for the ceremony. A stage has been set up with huge banners featuring PM Modi, JP Nadda, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath. Reportedly, over 20,000 chairs have been kept in the ground.
The BJP claimed a voting share percentage of 41 per cent this time in UP. The next on the list was Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party which claimed a voting share percentage of 32 per cent.
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