Decks cleared for Yogi to enter UP legislature and continue as CM

Currently, the chief minister and his two deputies are not members of the state legislature

With barely three weeks left for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to become a member of the state legislature for continuing in CM post, the process of elections to the four vacant UP Vidhan Parishad seats will get underway on Tuesday, August 29.

According to statutes, a member of the council of ministers, including the chief minister, is required to get elected to either of the two houses (Vidhan Sabha or Vidhan Parishad) within six months of assuming office.

Since Adityanath's council of ministers had taken the oath of office on March 19, 2017, the law requires