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Meat ban to Anti-romeo squad: Yogi Adityanath's governance model for UP

Party's core supporters are convinced thst his governance model set for Uttar Pradesh is right

Yogi Adityanath during the oath-taking ceremony in Lucknow
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Yogi Adityanath during the oath-taking ceremony in Lucknow. Photo: PTI

Radhika Ramaseshan New Delhi
Uma Bharti and Swami Chinmayanand were the Bharatiya Janata Party’s first saffron-robed inductions into offices of power. Uma Bharti became the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh in 2003. Chinmayanand, a Lok Sabha member from UP’s Jaunpur, was a junior home minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
 
Neither had an illustrious inning by the reckoning of insiders. Bharti used the huge mandate she got to pursue a pet issue, cow protection. Chinmayanand was overshadowed by his senior, L K Advani.
 
How will Yogi Adityanath, the latest entrant in saffron raiment to the inner recesses of power, allow himself