GORAKHPUR Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on the previous Samajwadi Party government over women’s safety, saying that before 2017, families were worried about their daughters’ education and security.
He highlighted schemes such as the Mukhyamantri Kanya Sumangala Yojana, under which financial assistance is provided from a girl’s birth through graduation, and the Mukhyamantri Samuhik Vivah Yojana. The ₹ 8.05-crore women’s shelter has a capacity to accommodate 100 women affected by domestic violence, abandonment and other difficult circumstances, officials said. Adityanath said more than 9.5 lakh youths had been provided government jobs under the Mission Employment programme. He added that 96 lakh MSME units in the state had generated employment for more than three crore people, while UP now had more than 24,000 startups.
“Before 2017, a saying had become common in Uttar Pradesh – ‘Dekh Sapai, bitiya ghabraai’ (seeing a Samajwadi Party worker, the daughter gets scared),” he said addressing a function after inaugurating a government women’s shelter in Chargawan here. Adityanath alleged that the state had witnessed “goondaism (hooliganism), land grabbing and anarchy” during the previous government’s rule. When society and government work in one direction, the results are visible,” he said. Adityanath said the government was working to provide women with dignity, security and opportunities for self-reliance. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said social media had blurred the line between truth and falsehood by creating a new phenomenon of “half-truth”, making it increasingly difficult for people to distinguish fact from fiction.
“Today, UP is free from curfew, riots, fear, goondaism and land grabbing.
