Yogi Adityanath invokes Ambedkar, Vajpayee on completing one year in office

Signals taking all communities along in backdrop of bypoll defeat

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday invoked dalit leader Bhimrao Ambedkar and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the first anniversary of his government to stress on the self-ordained mission of taking all communities along on the path of development.

In backdrop of humiliating defeat in Gorakhpur and Phulpur parliamentary bypoll at the hands of the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party combine, Adityanath said his government had espoused social justice ethos of Ambedkar by deciding to supply equitable power to all districts in a non-partisan manner against uninterrupted power supply to only a few ‘VIP’ district in the