UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Delhi: Top developments

 

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital. The UP CM is also expected to meet Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) chief Amit Shah to discuss the allotment of ministries. Here are the latest developments in this story:

MEETING WITH PM MODI:

Post assuming office as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Parliament on Tuesday.

The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri @yogi_adityanath met PM Shri @narendramodi . @CMOfficeUP pic.twitter.com/GhFuiEH7uA

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) March 21, 2017

Earlier, Adityanath met finance minister Arun Jaitley. He also had detailed meeting with home minister Rajnath Singh.
Adityanath will now be meeting external affairs Sushma Swaraj, President Pranab Mukherjee, BJP president Amit Shah and and party veteran Lal Krishna Advani before leaving back to Lucknow.

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath arrives in Delhi, will meet President Pranab Mukherjee, PM Modi & Union Minister A Jaitley

 PORTFOLIOS SOON:


Portfolios to new ministers of Uttar Pradesh are likely to be allotted "very soon", cabinet minister Siddharth Nath Singh said on Monday.

On Sunday, a 47-member Council of Ministers, including two deputy chief ministers, was sworn in by Governor Ram Naik.
"The portfolios are being worked out. The process for allocation of departments is on and hopefully it will be done very soon," Singh said.
Singh and Shrikant Sharma are the two UP ministers entrusted with the task of acting as an interface between the government and the media.


'YOGI MOST SUITABLE PERSON FOR CM's JOB':

Union Minister for Water Resources Uma Bharti on Monday said the newly-appointed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was the most suitable candidate for the job.

"Yogi-ji is a balanced person. He has long experience in Parliament and has carried forward an ideology. I think he is most suitable for a state like Uttar Pradesh and would establish new dimensions (of governance)," Bharti said.
"One should not judge him by his robes. He has taken 'sannyas' and it is his personal life style. We have to see whether he is a good politician, whether he has the capacity to take along everyone...and he is most suitable from these viewpoints," she added.