"When we said let's conduct a cheating-free exam (then) 10 lakhs students dropped out. This is the figure until now. I don't know what will happen in future," Adityanath said.

Earlier speaking to reporters in Lucknow, Adityanath had said, "The opposition leaders' ... rude, unparliamentary, indecorous and indecent behaviour... is despicable."

Addressing a public gathering, Yogi Adityanath attacked the Congress, the SP and the BSP for allegedly exploiting and dividing voters through caste politics and appeasement to suit their needs.

Justice B K Narayana dismissed the petition filed by Rasheed Khan, at whose instance an FIR was registered against Adityanath and others at police station Kotwali Gorakhpur, against the Sessions Court verdict.

“Our government is committed to provide security to each and every citizen. Anarchy has no place in the state,” Chief Minister Adityanath said, his first comments on the clashes.

According to police, some unidentified people hurled stones at a motorcycle rally taken out by volunteers of VHP and ABVP on the Mathura-Bareilly highway.

Adityanath has long been advocating to free the state from the “politics of caste and appeasement” which he claimed had been rampant during the last 15 years.

Stressing the need for quality education, the UP CM expressed disappointment over the fact that the country was not able to utilise energy of those “misguided” in ‘rashtra nirman’ (nation building).

Netanyahu was received by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at the Kheria Airport.

In November last year, Adityanath had said that Bhansali was no less guilty than those issuing threats to actors & others involved with the film & asserted that if there is any action, "it will be against both the sides"

Lashing out at the filmmaker, Yogi Adityanath had said that Sanjay Leela Bhansali was "habitual of playing with public sentiments".

Adityanath said that had the Congress laid more emphasis on development, Amethi would not have languished.

Addressing the crowd in his bastion on the last of three-day celebrations, Adityanath said that opposition leaders are victim of misapprehension and that the people of Gorakhpur have organised the event at its fullest.

PM Modi, in an apparent reference to the recent heated exchanges between Karnataka CM and Yogi Adityanath on the microblogging site Twitter, jeered Siddaramaiah saying "Yogi has defeated many with his skills".

"Our ISRO scientists have made us proud yet again. ISRO today created a century in satellite launching. Farmers, fishermen & scientists of the nation will be helped in getting ground details with this success", the PM tweeted.

“We believe that changing colours will not change anything...It is only the colour of development that is permanent...Instead of doing anything for people’s welfare, the BJP is involved in works that divert attention,” Yadav said.

In last 10 months, 31 criminals have been gunned down by police in 921 encounters and more than 2000 goons were sent behind the bars. Also three police personnel have lost their lives in encounters.

Adityanath said development would not gain momentum in Karnataka unless there was synchronicity in the thinking process between the BJP-ruled Centre and the state’s chief minister.

The move comes after the Allahabad High Court ordered the removal of loudspeakers from religious places, in an attempt to curb the increasing noise pollution.

On Friday, when the boundary wall was painted saffron, it triggered an immediate storm even while the ruling party leaders said "not much should be read" in the development.