Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has resigned from his post following the tradition before the formation of the new government. After the meeting of the Council of Ministers on Friday afternoon, Yogi Adityanath reached the Raj Bhavan to meet Governor Anandiben Patel and submitted his resignation. Yogi will work as caretaker chief minister till the new government is formed. It is believed that he will take oath before Holi.
His name has already been stamped with the victory in the election fought under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath. Now the formality of choosing the leader will be completed in the legislature party meeting. It is believed that the names of other ministers will be stamped in Delhi. According to media reports, a new government may be formed on March 15.
The BJP alliance has won a thumping victory in UP. BJP alone has won 255 seats. Its alliance partner Apna Dal (Sonelal) got 12 seats and Nishad Party got six seats. After 37 years, a government was repeated in the state and Yogi is going to become the Chief Minister again.
The BJP and its allies won 275 of the 403 assembly seats in UP, while the alliance of major rivals Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal got 124 seats. Bahujan Samaj Party has been reduced to just one seat and Congress has got two seats while Jansatta Dal Loktantrik has got two seats.
The victory of this assembly election not only increased the stature of Yogi, but he emerged as a hero who, overcoming all the odd circumstances, put the gift of victory in the bag of BJP. The election results of UP not only stamped Yogi’s image of bulldozer Baba and his good governance model, but also destroyed the plans of the opponents.
On the basis of Yogi’s immaculate image and his hard work without stopping for the whole five years, the people of the state considered him the most useful for UP. Swami Prasad Maurya and Dharam Singh, who left the BJP and joined the SP, also collapsed. However, many ministers of the state also lost the elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had set the agenda of UP elections on 14 September 2021 on the occasion of foundation stone laying of Raja Mahendra Pratap University in Aligarh that the party would make law and order of UP the main election weapon. BJP proceeded on the same agenda. Opponents sometimes surrounded Yogi on caste, sometimes thumping policy and sometimes other issues, but none of the strategies worked.