We haven’t invoked the National Security Act in wrong cases, says Yogi Adityanath

‘If anyone has broken the law then the government has come down heavily on them, but the common man has seen action against lawbreakers,’ says the Uttar Pradesh CM

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister en route to completing five years at the helm of India’s most politically significant State speaks to , and on his tenure and issues connected with it. The challenges facing us were very clear and we tackled them one by one. Today, U.P. is among those States aspiring to reach high levels of development, otherwise one would only hear of riots, law and order problems, corruption, and the perception was such that no good person wanted to come here. There was no coordination between Centre and State over welfare programmes under previous governments especially after 2014. In 2014, the Swachch Bharat Mission was launched, in its first 2.5 years only 44 lakh toilets were built, in the next one and a half years we built 2.61 crore toilets. The result of this was that we found help to improve the conditions of the people, and in 38 janpads there was a dip in the incidence of encephalitis. Same is the case with the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana, in the last four years we have provided housing to 40 lakh people and money sent to people’s bank accounts, and appointing nodal officers to oversee construction. There were 1,24,000 villages in U.P. which didn’t have any electricity connections and we provided connections there.