Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said Uttar Pradesh will emerge as a prosperous state in the next three years by eradicating poverty and his government will make the state’s economy number one in the country.
Addressing an event at Maharajganj, he attacked previous governments, saying they encouraged “one district, one mafia” while the BJP dispensation replaced it with “one district, one medical college”.
Adityanath thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for the passage of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, in Parliament, claiming it would put a check on the “loot” being carried out in the name of the Waqf board.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister was in Maharajganj for the inauguration of the Rohin Barrage. He also laid the foundation stones of and inaugurated 629 developmental projects worth Rs 654 crore, according to the state government.
“In the next three years, Uttar Pradesh will be established as a prosperous state by eradicating poverty. We will make Uttar Pradesh the number one economy in the country by achieving the target of zero poverty,” he said.
Adityanath stressed that in “new India”, development works are carried out without discrimination. “Under the leadership of PM Modi, people are witnessing the emergence of a new India,” he added.
“Uttar Pradesh is no longer a BIMARU state. Maharajganj is no longer a backward district,” he asserted.
The acronym ‘BIMARU’ (meaning sick) was coined in the mid-1980s from the first letters of names of some of the country’s then poorest states — Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
The chief minister emphasized the significant progress Uttar Pradesh has made in the past eight years, stating, “In 2017, the state was the seventh largest economy in the country. But now, it is the second largest.”
