Lucknow:Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Thursday praised Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government, saying the law and order under his watch has improved over the last five years, adding that his government did not discriminate against people on the basis of religion.
"Yogi government has done the work of strengthening law and order situation in the last five years. Our government provided security to every single person of the state. We did not ask about anyone's religion before benefitting from our schemes," Amit Shah said after Yogi was elected as the leader of BJP legislative party in Uttar Pradesh.
Shah called Yogi's second term a 'historic moment'. "A moment of history in BJP legislature. For 35 years, no party has won with a majority in UP except the BJP. Yogi Adityanath by the dint of his work was chosen again to head Uttar Pradesh," Shah said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party won the recent Uttar Pradesh assembly elections with a massive mandate- winning 255 out of 403 constituencies- resulting in the return of the party for a second continuous term. This is the first time in almost four decades that any political party has won consecutively. "In the last 35 years, not a single political party has got a majority for two consecutive terms in Uttar Pradesh. In 2014, BJP announced Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India and under his leadership, we saw the dream of forming our government in Uttar Pradesh in 2017 for the first time," Shah said.