The chief minister has instructed officials that districts with low literacy rates, should be prioritised and primary schools in the state should be equipped with better facilities, an official release stated.

Talks are doing the rounds in the political circles that as part of the plan, the BJP might send Shivpal Yadav to Rajya Sabha and give his Jaswantnagar seat to his son Aditya Yadav.

Notably, the formation of anti-Romeo squads was one of the BJP's key promises during the election campaign to provide security to women.

Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Awanish Awasthi said that out of the 5,381 posts, 86 are gazetted category posts and 5,295 non-gazetted.

The speculation gained strength after the sulking socialist leader Shivpal Yadav recently met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath amid reports of strains in the SP-led alliance.

Shivpal Yadav had contested the Assembly elections from Jaswantnagar seat of Etawah on the symbol of the Samajwadi Party headed by his nephew Akhilesh Yadav.  

Rabri Devi made the comment while lambasting the BJP-JDU dispensation for alleged failure to maintain law and order situation in Bihar.

Police said 14 people have been arrested so far in connection with the conspiracy to flare riots in Gorakhpur on March 25, the day Yogi Adityanath took oath as the CM of Uttar Pradesh.

The Samajwadi Party chief welcomed the newly-elected Speaker Satish Mahana.

Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya has been given charge of Rural Development, Food Processing, Entertainment Tax, and National Integration departments. Fellow Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak has been allocated three departments - Health, Family Welfare, and Child Welfare.

Reports from various parts of the state also suggest several illegal encroachments have been removed with bulldozers which many consider now a new emblem of the Yogi Aditynath government.

Prayagraj Mayor Abhilasha Gupta said that the bulldozer was a symbol of security for the women and also of the development of Uttar Pradesh.

UP Kushinagar News: BJP supporter Babar was allegedly lynched by his neighbours for supporting the saffron party's win in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.  

The two leaders met in the UP legislative assembly ahead of the oath taking of the newly-elected members of the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly.

The deceased man, identified as Babar, was allegedly lynched by his neighbours for supporting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and distributing sweets after the party's poll victory in Uttar Pradesh.

Union civil aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia also participated in the function from Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior.

Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 45 of the total 53 ministers, including CM.

On Friday, Adityanath, 48, was sworn in as chief minister, becoming the first CM in over three and a half decades to return to power in the state after completing a full five-year term.

Yogi Adityanath on Friday took oath as the Uttar Pradesh chief minister for a second term at a ceremony where 52 others were sworn in as ministers, as PM Narendra Modi watched the proceedings marking the BJP’s triumphant return to power in the state.

During the assembly poll campaign, BJP bigwigs hailed the success of Adityanath-Narendra Modi's‘ double-engine’ government in the state over the past five years. And the CM tweeted a telling picture of Modi placing a hand over his shoulders.