Don’t take the law into your hands, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath tells BJP workers

NOIDA (UP): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today once again appealed to BJP workers not to take the law on to their hands.

"BJP workers should not take law in their hands if they find any discrepancy in development works. You should inform your (BJP) office bearers or officers concerned," he told a gathering here on his first visit to the backward Bundelkhand region after BJP stormed to power in the recent Assembly elections.

Adityanath had earlier also cautioned Hindu groups to refrain from vigilantism after outrages over violent incidents involving self-proclaimed cow protectors. Adityanath’s own Hindu Yuva Vahini also recently indefinitely suspended enrolment of new members.


The Yuva Vahini members were accused of dragging a consenting couple in Meerut to the police station, interrupting a prayer meeting at a church in Maharajganj where US nationals were present, and being involved in a hit-and-run case in Noida.

Meanwhile at the Jhansi meeting UP CM also reiterate his earlier promises of zero-tolerance on corruption. He promised to visit all districts of the state to listen to people’s grievances.

The Uttar Pradesh chief minister promised to connect Bundlekhand with Delhi via a six lane road to create employment. He also asked BJP workers to keep track of developmental works in the region and apprise him if they found something missing.

He also promised that soon all districts will have 24 hours of electricity and that his government will work to improve the health care system in the state.

Advising workers to unite people of all sections, he said, "There should not be prejudice. Every section should be taken together and it can be face of such 'Rashtravadi' (nationalist) arrangement where everyone feels free to put forth his views".

Bundelkhand covers a geographical area of around 70,000 square kilometres and includes seven districts of UP and six districts of MP.

It comprises 13 districts in all -- Jhansi, Lalitpur, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Mahoba, Banda and Chitrakoot (all in UP), and Datia, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, Panna, Sagar and Damoh (all in MP).

The BJP in its Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra (manifesto for 2017 UP Assembly elections) had said that it will constitute Bundelkhand Development Board to ensure all-round development of region.

The manifesto also mentioned that the party will form Pond Development Authority (Talab Vikas Pradhikaran) to ensure conservation and revamping of various ponds.

In a major decision announced on April 2, the Adityanath government approved a Rs 47 crore package to ensure immediate availability of drinking water to the Bundelkhand region.

Inputs from PTI