New Delhi: Two days after the assembly election result which has brought BJP back in power for the second consecutive term in Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath will visit New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discuss new cabinet formation in the state.
Adityanath will visit the national capital today to hold consultations with the top leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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According to an ANI report, he is likely to discuss the dates for the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in the state along with the new Cabinet with the top brass of the BJP.
Yogi will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP chief JP Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, and the party's national general secretary BL Santhosh during his visit to the national capital.
The BJP won the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections with a clear majority and will be taking over the charge of the state for the second time. Following the massive victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Adityanath on Friday held a meeting with his ministerial colleagues at the party office in Lucknow.
Adityanath, a monk-turned-politician, won his first-ever Assembly election by a margin of 1,03,390 from Gorakhpur Urban constituency, defeating the Samajwadi Party candidate Subhawati Upendra Dutt Shukla, who secured 62,109 votes in the recently-concluded UP Assembly elections. Adityanath will be the first Chief Minister in the last 37 years to return to power after completing a full term in the state.
The BJP won 255 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh. Its allies Apna Dal (S) and Nishad Party bagged 12 seats and six seats, respectively.
The Samajwadi Party won 111 seats and its alliance partners Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal got six and eight seats, respectively.
The Congress and the Jansatta Dal got two seats each and the Bahujan Samaj Party bagged one.