Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lauded Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath under whose leadership, the former said, UP was benefitting from a “double-engine’ sarkar,” referring to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) governments at the Centre and in the state. “The central and UP governments are working together to develop the state. We have to fight together all the forces that are against development here,” PM Modi said.

Taking a swipe at the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP), which was in power here from 2017, the Prime Minister said that people cannot forget the scams that took place before the BJP came to power. He also pointed to “lawlessness” that prevailed while the SP was in power. “However, with Yogiji in power, criminals think twice before committing a crime,” PM Modi said.

He made these remarks while laying the foundation stone of a university named after Jat king Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh. On this occasion, he also inspected exhibition models of the Aligarh node of the Uttar Pradesh industrial defence corridor.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lauded Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath under whose leadership, the former said, UP was benefitting from a “double-engine’ sarkar,” referring to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) governments at the Centre and in the state. “The central and UP governments are working together to develop the state. We have to fight together all the forces that are against development here,” PM Modi said.

Taking a swipe at the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP), which was in power here from 2017, the Prime Minister said that people cannot forget the scams that took place before the BJP came to power. He also pointed to “lawlessness” that prevailed while the SP was in power. “However, with Yogiji in power, criminals think twice before committing a crime,” PM Modi said.

He made these remarks while laying the foundation stone of a university named after Jat king Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh. On this occasion, he also inspected exhibition models of the Aligarh node of the Uttar Pradesh industrial defence corridor.