"Yogi Adityanath is best CM in country...": UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya
Aug 19, 2024
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 19 : Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya praised Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and said that the state has the best chief minister in the country.
While addressing an event on Sunday, the Deputy CM said that the "double-engine" government in the state is doing the best work in the country.
"People know and believe that our double-engine government is doing the best work in the country since Independence. Is there any other leader like PM (Narendra) Modi in the world, and is there any other CM like Yogi Adityanath in the country?" Keshav Prasad said.
"When our PM Modi is the most influential leader in the world and when our CM is the best in the country, the best work is being done," he added.
Maurya's statement comes days after the opposition speculated sign of dissent in the BJP after the Lok Sabha elections.
Earlier in July, in a post on X, the office of the Deputy CM quoted Maurya as saying, "The organization is bigger than the government, the pain of the workers is my pain. No one is bigger than the organization, the workers are the pride."
The post followed a meeting of the UP Deputy CM with BJP party President JP Nadda in Delhi on Tuesday. Nadda also held a separate meeting with the Uttar Pradesh BJP Chief Bhupender Chaudhary.
Maurya is currently serving his second term as the Deputy CM of the state. In 2017 he was the state BJP president when the BJP formed the majority government under CM Yogi Adityanth with 312 seats in the Assembly.
In the 2022 elections, Maurya lost the Assembly election but continued in his position as Deputy CM along with Brijesh Pathak, he was later elected to the Legislative Council.
The BJP won 33 seats in the Lok Sabha polls 2024, down from 62 it had won out of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 general elections.
