UP CM Yogi Targets Previous Regimes For Ignoring Development in Eastern UP

CM Yogi was speaking at a press conference in Gorakhpur, informing the reporters about the upcoming projects in the eastern UP, reported ANI.

UP CM Yogi Adityanath was speaking at a press conference in Gorakhpur (File Photo)

New Delhi: With the elections coming closer, the political war of words has picked up pace as Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath targeted the previous regimes for ignoring the development in eastern UP.

CM Yogi was speaking at a press conference in Gorakhpur, informing the reporters about the upcoming projects in the eastern UP, reported ANI. He briefed about the benefits of the projects highlighting that the Prime Minister is set to inaugurate projects worth Rs 96,000 crore on December 7.

Projects to be inaugurated by PM Modi on Tuesday include a fertilizer plant, AIIMS Gorakhpur, ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre, Gorakhpur among other projects.

“On December 7, PM Modi will inaugurate developmental projects worth over Rs 9,600 crore in Gorakhpur. This is the biggest investment in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The Prime Minister will inaugurate the Gorakhpur Fertilizer Plant,” he said.

Targeting the previous regimes he added, “Previous governments didn't work for the development of this region of the state.”

While talking about the inaugurations, he went on to praise the PM for his contribution to the development of eastern UP. “Jo vipaksh ke liye namumkin tha, Modi ji ne usse mumkin banaya hai. Jo vipaksh ke liye asambhav tha, usko Modi ji ne sambhav banaya hai... (Whatever was impossible for the Opposition, PM Modi made it possible),” he added.

Explaining the benefits these projects will give to the people of UP, Yogi claimed that nearly 50,000 children died of encephalitis in the last 40 years due to a lack of medical facilities. “In the last 40 years, 50,000 children died here due to encephalitis. There were no proper arrangements. In 2016, PM Modi laid the foundation stone of AIIMS Gorakhpur, it is now ready and PM Modi will inaugurate it,” he said.

Yogi also talked about the ICMR’s regional research centre and said that it is built on the lines of the National Institute of Virology Pune and will be inaugurated by the PM on Tuesday. 

“In 1977, patients of encephalitis were identified. Samples of those patients were sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune. For a long time, samples were sent to NIV Pune or any other national centre. Now, a regional centre of ICMR in Gorakhpur on the lines of NIV Pune has been set up. PM Modi will now inaugurate it on December 7,” he said.

The PM had inaugurated the Purvanchal expressway in UP last month and laid the foundation stone for several projects in Dehradun yesterday.