Though Yogi has given credit to the "vision" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the "strategy" of BJP chief Amit Shah, the credit rightly goes to him.

A resurgent Mayawati challenged the BJP and said that her party would sweep the 2019 Lok Sabha polls if voting is done on ballot papers.

Yogi Adityanath said he wanted the decades old issue resolved amicably through talks but lamented that that could not happen.

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath lauded the BJP workers who ‘worked to communicate the party agenda of development to all’.

In an exclusive chat session with India TV, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath thanked the people of state for showing faith in the government.

Seen as a litmus test for Yogi Adityanath less than a year after the BJP swept to power with a thumping majority, the saffron party bagged more than 50 per cent of the seats in the UP civic polls, results to which were announced today.

The Uttar Pradesh civic poll results will also give a strong boost to the BJP ahead of the crucial Gujarat Assembly elections where voting is scheduled for December 9 and December 14.

Elections were held for 16 Municipal Corporations, 118 Municipal Council and 438 Nagar Panchayats in three phases on November 22, November 26 and November 29.

The voting for 16 nagar nigam (Municipal Corporation), 118 nagar palika parishad (Municipal Council) and 438 nagar panchayat bodies had taken place in three phases on November 22, November 26 and November 29.

The entire controversy arose when Rahul Gandhi on his visit to the famous Gujarat's Somnath temple, allegedly mentioned himself as a 'non-Hindu' on the temple register.

Counting of votes for all the three phases will be done on December 1 and results will be declared the same day.

UP CM Yogi Adityanath also congratulated the people for not letting Congress win a single seat in Gujarat in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath said that the situation is improving after the BJP came to power -- both in the Center as well as the state.

Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched by a mob in Bisara village of Dadri for alleged cow slaughter and consuming beef at his residence on September 28, 2015.

A video showing the woman taking off her black burqa minutes before the chief minister makes an appearance at the rally on Tuesday has gone viral.

Polling was held for five municipal corporations, 71 nagar palika parishads, and 154 nagar panchayats. An estimated 1.09 crore voters are said to have exercised their franchise at 11,679 booths in this phase.

Amid rumours that there was a romantic dream sequence between Padmavati and Alauddin Khilji's characters, many groups have been protesting against the movie, alleging that it distorts history.

Lamba, however, said while Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has termed Padmavati as ‘rashtramata’, his Uttar Pradesh counterpart wants “gaumata” to be the ‘rashtramata’.

Attacking the SP and BSP, he said that corruption was at its peak during the past 15 years in the state and all works in the civic bodies were decided from Lucknow.

By becoming Congress president, Rahul Gandhi will make easier our task to make India ‘Congress-mukt’, Yogi Adityanath said.