Yogi Adityanath To Take Oath As Uttar Pradesh's CM For Second Time Today

Yogi's name was proposed for the post during a meeting of the newly elected party MLAs at Lok Bhawan, Lucknow in the presence of Amit Shah.

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Yogi Adityanath will be sworn in for the second time as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh today, i.e. on Friday. He is the 21st CM of Uttar Pradesh and the first to be reelected after completing a full five-year term. The ceremony will be held at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. PM Modi and other top leaders of the BJP will be present at the event. 

Yogi was unanimously elected the BJP legislature party leader in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. Later, he met Governor Anandiben Patel to stake a claim to form government in the state. Before Adityanath met the governor, BJP's central observer Raghubar Das, Nishad Party leader Sanjay Nishad, Ashish Patel of the Apna Dal (S) presented support letters of 273 MLAs. 

Yogi's name was proposed for the post during a meeting of the newly elected party MLAs at Lok Bhawan, Lucknow in the presence of Amit Shah. Suresh Kumar Khanna presented Yogi's name and all the senior leaders seconded that. Apna Dal and Nishad Party leaders were also present in this meeting. After the meeting ended, Yogi Adityanath dropped Amit Shah at the airport. 

Yogi Adityanath to take oath as Uttar Pradesh CM today

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BJP won 255 seats in the recently concluded UP election, while allies Nishad Party and the Apna Dal (S) bagged 18 seats. 

There is no clarity about who Yogi's deputies would be in his second term as CM. As per constitutional provisions, 60 MLAs could be made ministers in UP.

Adityanath said that his victory was a result of the policies of his government from 2017 to 2022. "People for the first time felt that houses for the poor could also be built. For the first time, it was felt that money can go directly into the account of the poor," he said as quoted by PTI.