Tajdar Zaidi
Lucknow: Targeting the opposition for lack of vision, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Friday that by attracting large investments, the state government has made the impossible tasks possible in Uttar Pradesh.
“We have made the impossible possible for those who make various comments,” the chief minister said, countering his government’s detractors.
He was speaking at a program organized to disburse incentives and distribute Letters of Comfort to the representatives of industry at Lok Bhavan here.
If the industry takes 10 steps, his government will respond with 100 steps, he said on the occasion.
Adityanath also said when he called the then minister for industry and IIDC (infrastructure and industrial development commissioner), asking them to make efforts for investment, he was told that ₹20,000 crore investment could be made in Uttar Pradesh.
The chief minister also said when he asked them to make efforts for a larger investment, they said “Who would come to Uttar Pradesh?”
But the state government got investment proposals of ₹40 lakh crore at the Global Investors Summit-2023 and investment proposals of ₹10 lakh crore were implemented in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February 2024, Adityanath said.
“Before 2017, UP was plagued by chaos, anarchy, and crime due to the narrow-minded approach of the previous government, which lacked vision. The atmosphere was not such (industry-friendly) before 2017. The previous governments lacked vision and worked with narrow interests. Their aim was to get to power by hook or by crook,” he said.
He said Uttar Pradesh enjoys the rule of law and has created a favorable environment for investment, making the state India’s dream destination for investors.
He also said his government adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards crime and criminals and towards corruption and the corrupt.
In the previous regime, he said curfew was clamped during the top business season and the state’s youth faced a crisis of identity.
But now, the state has made strides in both ease of doing business and ease of living, he said as he detailed the implementation of 27 sectoral policies in Uttar Pradesh, developed with input from stakeholders.
