Uttar Pradesh Investors Summit 2018: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the summitLucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Lucknow today to inaugurate the two-day http://doodleordie.com/profile/kkpaytm Uttar Pradesh Investors Summit which is being attended by around 5 000 people including industry leaders from India and abroad chief ministers union ministers policy makers and academics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has in a tweet praised Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath s leadership saying that the state s progress journey has got a strong impetus .A total of 30 sessions have been planned for the two-day summit to be attended by many central ministers. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been personally overseeing the preparations for the investors summit. Here are the LIVE Updates from the Uttar Pradesh Investors Summit 2018:Feb 21 201815:56 (IST)Prime Minister announces Rs 20 000 crore defence industrial corridor in BundelkhandPrime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his government will establish a Rs 20 000-crore defence industrial production corridor in Bundelkhand a region divided between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh which will generate 250 000 jobs and bring development to one of the most impoverished regions of the country.Feb 21 201815:42 (IST)Mukesh Ambani vows additional Rs 10 000 crore investment in Uttar PradeshReliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani speaking at the UP Investor Summit assured that Jio s digital revolution will make maximum contribution to the development of Uttar Pradesh and announced four commitments in this regard including investment of another Rs 10 000 crore by Jio in the next three years.Feb 21 201815:34 (IST) Uttar Pradesh has signed 1 045 pacts worth Rs 4.28 lakh crore on the first day of the UP investors summit Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today.Feb 21 201812:59 (IST)Adani Group to invest Rs 35 000 crore in Uttar PradeshAccording to a report by news agency PTI the Adani Group said today at the Uttar Pradesh Investors Summit that it will invest Rs 35 000 crore in Uttar Pradesh in the next five years in different sectors.Gautam Adani of Adani Group said that energy logistics solar power roads and agriculture were among the core sectors that the group was looking to invest in.Feb 21 201812:48 (IST) Can there be competition between Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra? Prime Minister Narendra Modi recounted his visit to Maharashtra and said that the Maharashtra government had kept a target of having a trillion dollar economy. PM Modi then asked if there could be competition between Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh as to which state could first achieve the target of being a trillion dollar economy.Can there be a competition between Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra to achieve the target of trillion dollar economy first?: PM Shri @narendramodi at #UPInvestorsSummitpic.twitter.com/hPYzGlexRG- BJP (@BJP4India) February 21 2018Feb 21 201812:43 (IST)Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the Uttar Pradesh Investors SummitPM Modi has started to speak at the Uttar Pradesh Investors Summit. He commended the Uttar Pradesh government for being the Number One in milk sugar cane and potato production. PM Modi said that there were a lot of values in Uttar Pradesh but in modern times value-addition was needed.He said that 70 per cent of the population of Uttar Pradesh was of working age saying that Uttar Pradesh had a lot of potential .He added saying that potential policy and planning will bring progress to the state.Feb 21 201812:09 (IST)BJP MLA Lokendra Singh who was on his way to 2018 UP Investors Summit dies in a road accidentBJP MLA Lokendra Singh was on his way to attend the Uttar Pradesh Investors Summit when he met with a road accident in Sitapur. The lawmaker s SUV crashed with a truck coming from the opposite direction.Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled his death in a tweet.Anguished by the demise of BJP MLA from Noorpur Shri Lokendra Singh Ji due to an accident. His service towards society and role in building the BJP in UP will always be remembered. My thoughts are with his family and supporters in this hour of grief.- Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 21 2018Feb 21 201812:04 (IST)Yogi Adityanath delivers a speech at the Uttar Pradesh Investors SummitUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is speaking at the 2018 UP Investors Summit. He welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the summit and thanked him for his attendance.Chief Minister Adityanath also said that investors should not face any difficulties in investing in Uttar Pradesh. He congratulated all participants of the summit and hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi s vision for New India .Feb 21 201811:25 (IST)Yogi Adityanath comments on the 2018 Uttar Pradesh Investors SummitChief Minister Yogi Adityanath had yesterday spoke about the Investors Summit. He said that the perception of Uttar Pradesh has changed from the last 9 to 10 months. He said that the perception of Uttar Pradesh had earlier since the past 15 years been negative largely because of corruption and crime. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that his government was responsible for eliminating this perception of the state.He said that investors were now getting confidence in doing business in the state and that their investments would be safe.He said not a single crime in the state had occurred since he took charge of the government.Feb 21 201811:16 (IST)Industry leaders ministers policy makers and academics to attend summitThe 2018 Uttar Pradesh Investors Summit is being attended by a wide range of functionaries. A total of 30 sessions have been planned for the two-day summit.The summit will be attended by central ministers Rajnath Singh Nirmala Sitharaman Ravi Shankar Prasad Smriti Irani Piyush Goyal and Dharmendra Pradhan.Industry leaders including Gautam Adani Mukesh Ambani Subhash Chandra N Chandrashekharan Anand Mahindra Kumar Mangalam Birla and Shobana Kamineni are scheduled to speak during various sessions. Business leaders from Mauritius Japan The Netherlands Finland Czech Republic Thailand and Slovakia are also in Lucknow to participate in Yogi Adityanath s flagship event.Feb 21 201811:06 (IST)Mukesh Ambani says Jio is largest investor in Uttar Pradesh over Rs 20 000 crore investmentAt the UP Investors Summit Mukesh Ambani has said that Jio has invested Rs 20 000 crore in Uttar Pradesh saying that it is one of the largest investors in the state.Mr Ambani also said that Jio will be present in every UP village by the end of this year.No more content CommentsClose X
If there is a big message to be read in the Bharatiya Janata Party s choice of candidate for the upcoming bye-election to Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat it is this: despite making Adityanath the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh the leadership is unwilling to give him a significant voice in the party s affairs. Upendra Shukla the candidate is among the BJP leaders in Gorakhpur who had to stay out of electoral politics for over a decade because they had angered Adityanath by trying to diminish the political influence of Gorakhnath temple in the region. Adityanath is the temple s chief priest. BJP leaders said Adityanath wanted the party to field someone closely associated with the temple in Gorakhpur but was snubbed. The seat fell vacant when Adityanath resigned to take over as the Uttar Pradesh chief minister last March. His deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya vacated the Phulpur parliamentary seat. Both constituencies go to bye-polls on March 11. Adityanath first tried to persuade Swami Chinmayanand to contest from Gorakhpur an aide of the chief minister claimed. In a meeting held at the temple on February 14 Swami Chinmayanand politely turned down the offer saying he might not be a suitable candidate because he was an outsider. He said Yogiji should field someone who belonged to Gorakhpur and who could take along all major caste groups in the constituency. Chinmayanand a minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee s government is originally from Gonda in eastern Uttar Pradesh. He was a disciple of Avaidyanath Adityanath s predecessor as the chief priest of Gorakhnath temple as well as MP from Gorakhpur. Chinmayanand has represented Badaun (1991) Machhlishahr (1998) and Jaunpur (1999) in Parliament.Turned downAfter Chinmayanand refused to contest Adityanath tried to get the BJP leadership to field Swami Kamalnath who acts as the chief priest in the absence of Adityanath. On February 18 Adityanath flew to Delhi where he had a meeting with BJP chief Amit Shah and the party s UP president Mahendra Nath Pandey the aide said. He proposed the name of Swami Kamalnath but Amit Shah turned down his proposal and suggested the name of Upendra Shukla. The proposal was immediately seconded by Mahendra Nath Pandey. Despite Adityanath expressing reservations Shukla s candidature was finalised. In 2006 Shukla had contested the bye-election to Gorakhpur s Kauriram Assembly seat as an independent candidate after being denied a ticket by the BJP. He divided the BJP s vote and helped defeat the party s nominee Shital Pandey an Adityanath loyalist. Shukla garnered 17 635 votes which resulted in Pandey losing to the Samajwadi Party s Ram Bhual Nishad by 10 629 votes. The defeat of his loyalist however did little to stop Adityanath from strengthening his grip on the BJP organisation in northeast Uttar Pradesh. Shukla stayed with the BJP but was kept out of electoral politics. Inside the BJP the nomination of Shukla a Brahmin leader is seen as an attempt to create a parallel power centre to Adityanath in the region. It could also be seen as an outreach to Brahmins the largest upper caste group in not just Gorakhpur but across the state. Shukla is the BJP s first Gorakhpur candidate in three decades from outside Gorakhnath temple which is believed to wield considerable influence on the region s voters. From 1991 to 1996 the constituency was represented by Avaidyanath won had also won it as a Hindu Mahasabha candidate in 1989. Avaidyanath was succeeded by Adityanath who won five straight terms until 2014.
The two-day Uttar Pradesh investor summit will surpass all expectations about how much investment will come to the state says chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the event in Lucknow on February 21. It will be attended by President Ram Nath Kovind cabinet ministers including Rajnath Singh Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari. Business tycoons Mukesh Ambani Gautam Adani and Anand Mahindra are also expected to participate. With just days left for the event the CM talked to Himangshu Watts and Vasudha Venugopal . Edited excerpts: What were the challenges that you had to face while putting together the investor summit? UP is the largest state in the country and also the biggest marketplace. It should have been the place that investors flock to but in the last 15 years the image of the state worked against this. The foremost thing for us was to change that image of UP. For that we started teamwork and used technology to curb corruption. Another thing is that we addressed the law and order issue that had completely failed. Our entire focus was on that. For an investor that he doesn t have to be a victim of corruption in bureaucracy and that his property is safe are very important. In ease of doing business we have jumped from 17th to 7th position. This is because of the changes we brought in the last ten months. In the case of law and order in the last ten months there hasn t been any major riot or kidnapping or any incident that must worry an investor. And the message that we are working has gone out. I start work at 3am every day and the meetings go on for long hours into the night at times. Besides creating a safe environment to attract investors we are also bringing in the necessary reform in policy. As of now notifications for change in 14 policies have already gone out. I think over 700 MoUs can get signed. What are the big projects that could be announced in your summit? I can tell you that the investor summit in UP will be better than any other summit held in the country. We have had a lot of people showing interest in our core focus areas. How much investment are you expecting? We will surpass all expectations. The summit is for big businesses but the state s MSME sector has been hard hit in the last few years. What are you doing for the small and mid-level businessmen? Every area in UP is traditionally known for producing at least one item that is the best at least in the country. But it is unfortunate that in the last 15 years the leadership of the state choked the soul of the state. We have the best and maximum number of youth here. The good thing is we are No.1 in production of food grains sugar in connectivity we are coming up with two more expressways and the Centre has already agreed for the Jewar airport. We were No.1 in MSME but the traditional produce of UP was never given any importance. This is the first time we celebrated UP Days after 68 years. We started with one district and one product to honour the state that has been everything for us. The PM was an inspiration for us. All the schemes that he started be in skill India or Jan Dhan I used to think about the possibilities about connecting them with our people working in the MSME sector. During my meetings I asked district officials to resolve their issues. I realised no one gives money to poor people starting their own business. We have 16 500 bank branches in the state SC/ST women can get up to Rs 1 crore as loan youth could get up to Rs 1 lakh. I went to Mumbai to talk to the heads of banks and asked them why they were not implementing these central schemes in UP. Now in 75 districts there is enthusiasm to increase participation in government schemes because people have faith in our intent. Your website for the investor summit has photographs of big industrialists. Have you spoken to them personally? Yes of course. All of them are coming. I went for the Mumbai roadshow myself. There were six roadshows in the country. In Mumbai I met Ratan Tata Mukesh Ambani the Hinduja brothers (Kumar Mangalam) Birla. I listened to their concerns how businessmen were harassed in the state. The people who should be honoured were harassed. They told us they had sworn to themselves that they will never set foot in UP but now they know that the situation has changed. They are assured that the state government is very serious about its promises. They have already sent in their proposals. The PM is coming too and it is under his guidance that everything is being done. Even the President is coming for the closing ceremony. When will the Jewar airport be completed? In the coming three months we would have acquired our land. We will hold a big event there. There will be an international airport and logistics hubs. I will make the announcements during the investor summit. We have big plans for the project. The national healthcare policy is being seen as the Modi government s biggest pro-poor move. Its success also depends on how a state like UP implements it. What is your plan? The day it was announced I was the happiest. I had asked the health department four months ago to design a health insurance programme for the poor. After that the next day itself I went to Delhi and I spoke to the finance minister. I had told him whatever you decide of the Centre-state partnership in this be it 30-70 65-45 or 80 -20 let s go for it because I believe that a state like UP needs a scheme like this. We have already done homework on it and we will maximise the use of all our resources to ensure the programme is implemented well here. On an average every day I have to give money to at least 150-200 people to address health concerns for some surgery or operation. We do it procedurally by insisting on the income certificate. The scheme will benefit all of those people who don t have access to my office and that is a huge number considering our villages. How do you see the Kasganj incident? The incident at Kasganj was an accident. There was no curfew imposed. The accident in a way also happened because the focus that day was on the Republic Day parade and on ensuring there were no untoward incidents due to the release of Padmavaat. Kasganj happened because two groups that had old animosity towards each another got into a fight. The inquiry was done in an impartial but in a very stern way. Reports are pointing to violations in police encounters. Your comments. There has been no fake encounter in UP. Not even one. The Noida incident that you are talking about the SSP had instantly said that media reports calling it an encounter were wrong. It was because a disagreement had taken place between the two. The inquiry was on and people responsible for the crime also got arrested. Do you think we would have okayed an inquiry if it were an encounter or filed an FIR? Rest of what is happening in UP I can say is necessary. Every week there were at least two riots and kidnapping had become an occupation in itself. The criminals had houses of big leaders always open for them. Whose houses? That everybody knows who were the ones getting benefitted by the support of gangsters. Today nothing of that sort can happen. Sabki jawabdehi tai hai (everyone s accountability is fixed in this government). Over 10 lakh students have opted out of the education system because of your drive against copying in board exams. How do you plan to address this issue? What we are looking at is simplifying the way education is seen today. Clearing the exams by copying is not going to help the students in any way. We will give them jobs in other sectors. We are going for a complete overhaul of the education system in the state primary and secondary both. From April it will be CBSE books for all students alike. The primary schools will have NCERT books along with subjects on our culture traditions and about the great people the state and the country have produced. It is very necessary that our children learn about where we come from and what this land represents. We want the children to never worry about exams. We will create an environment for that. Even the PM has written a book on it. We want to be very strict about the copying mafia. An inquiry has already begun. We want to give maximum importance to vocational education. We have managed to enrol 6 lakh youths in courses of which 1.4 lakh could also be placed in various units and enterprises. We want the energy of the youth to be diverted in useful work that can be of use to him if he is not interested in academics. A person who is struggling to fill up a form but is actually capable of working can actually help out in the manufacturing of our traditionally famous items.
LUCKNOW : BJP s candidate for Gorakhpur parliamentary bypoll Upendra Shukla is the first in 29 years who is not from Gorakhnath temple. Upendra (57) is known to be more close to Shiv https://grabcad.com/robert.vadra-1 Pratap Shukla of the anti-Yogi camp and it seems he has mended his relations with Yogi Adityanath . A senior BJP strategist told TOI that Shukla is in fact Yogi Adtiyanath s choice. He said that Yogi now knows that he would need the backing of RSS and party in state and national level politics and hence did not want any disturbance. With the 2019 Lok Sabha elections being the next target for both BJP and chief minister Yogi Adityanath Shukla the win or loss in Gorakhpur would have a direct impact on Yogi s political journey. The main responsibility of ensuring Shukla s win from Gorakhpur now rests on Yogi Adityanath. If Yogi is able to convince voters that Shukla is his choice BJP is likely to win easily. Yogi was five-time consecutive MP from Gorakhpur seat since 1998 after his Guru Late Mahant Awaidhnath abdicated the seat after remaining on it since 1989. A BJP leader close to CM said that since Yogi has shifted to larger canvass of politics Hindu Yuva Vahini an organisation backed by him would not suffice and he would need the backing of RSS and BJP and hence he would toe party line when needed.
The BJP today announced its candidates for the Lok Sabha by-elections next month fielding seasoned organisational leader Upendra Shukla for Gorakhpur and former Varanasi mayor Kaushalendra Singh Patel for Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh. The two seats in Uttar Pradesh fell vacant after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya resigned from the Lok Sabha following their appointments last year. The choice of Shukla is seen as an outreach by the party to Brahmins who are the largest upper caste community in the state and have been its traditional supporters. Priests of Gorakhpur-based Gorakhnath temple had been representing the constituency since 1989. Mahant Avedyanath its head priest and Adityanath s guru won it for the first time then on Hindu Mahasabha ticket and later in 1991 and 1996 as a BJP candidate. Adityanath represented Gorakhpur in the Lok Sabha five times on a trot since 1998 before he took over as chief minister. He became the temple s head priest following his guru s death. The BJP also announced its candidates in Bihar naming Pradeep Singh as its nominee for the Araria Lok Sabha by-poll and Rinki Pandey for the Bhabua assembly by-election. Singh a former Araria MP had lost to RJD s Taslimuddin in 2014. The by-elections are scheduled to be held on March 11. Tomorrow is the last day for candidates to file nomination.
AGRA: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath will be meeting Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat here Agra on Friday. Though RSS functionaries claimed that the meeting is just a formal one over lunch BJP state leaders told TOI that CM would apprise the sarv sanghchalak about the performance of his government which will be completing one year in office next month. Talking with TOI Mritunjay Kumar media adviser to the chief minister said Yogi is scheduled to visit Agra on February 23 and after meeting with the RSS chief he will head for Mathura where he will celebrate Rangotsav (festival of colours). Sources said RSS chief Bhagwat is likely to share his feedback on the Yogi government and the two will also discuss the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2019. The RSS chief has already commenced his UP tour and is presently in Varanasi where he is meeting with RSS workers of eastern UP to understand the public perception about the BJP and work accordingly for the party for the 2019 polls. Prant Pracharak Agra Harish said Bhagwat will arrive in Agra on February 21. The next day he will be meeting with Sangh workers of the Braj region. Apart from meeting Yogi on February 23 he will be holding meetings with Sangh members. On February Bhagwat will be addressing more than 25 000 swayamsevaks from in and around Agra. Harish said this is an exercise to boost workers confidence to carry on the good work they have been doing and give directions relating to their work.
LUCKNOW: Accusing the opposition of sympathising with criminals Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today declared in the state Legislative Council that police encounters in the state would not stop. Speaking in the House during the Zero Hour Adityanath pointed toward the opposition and said everybody knew who gave patronage to criminals. A total of 40 dreaded criminals have been gunned down in 1200 encounters and this will continue the chief minister said. He was replying to Devendra Pratap Singh s (BJP) question on propriety pertaining to the February 13 directive of Chairman Ramesh Yadav asking the Yogi Adityanath government to get a CBI probe conducted into three cases including of two police encounters. It is unfortunate that some people are showing sympathy toward criminals. This is dangerous for democracy. The Noida incident which took place on February 3 in which Jitendra Yadav was hit by a bullet was not a police encounter and police does not count it as an encounter. Even the person affected had endorsed it Adityanath said. The chief minister urged the Chair to consider the questions raised by Devendra Pratap Singh. To this Leader of Opposition Ahmed Hasan (SP) said the Chair had already directed the government to get a CBI probe conducted. Now it can either recommend a CBI probe or may not do so. What is the relevance of the objection Hasan asked. Later Chairman Ramesh Yadav said he would reserve his decision on the question of propriety raised by Singh.
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