Lucknow, Apr 3 (FN Agency) On the basis of development works done by the Uttar Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the last six years the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is eyeing to bag win all 17 municipal corporation seats and establish a city government in the state ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.It may be noted that CM Yogi has gifted development projects to all the 17 municipal corporations and has also engaged in dialogue with the intellectuals living there. He also had an interaction with the residents of Shahjahanpur district, who will pick their first mayor this year, and got their assurance. The CM has launched an array of development projects in the 17 cities, including a project worth totaling Rs 1,459 crore in Bareilly, Rs 1,295 crore in Prayagraj, Rs 1,057 crore in Ayodhya, Rs 950 crore in Gorakhpur, Rs 878 crore in Ghaziabad, Rs 822.43 crore in Mathura-Vrindavan, Rs 517 crore in Meerut, Rs 488 crore in Agra, Rs 424 crore in Moradabad, Rs 388 crores in Kanpur, Rs 328 crores in Jhansi, Rs 308.18 crores in Shahjahanpur, Rs 269 crores in Firozabad, Rs 145 crores in Saharanpur and worth Rs 86.55 crores in Aligarh by organising Prabuddhajan Sammelans. The Municipal Corporation had 16 seats the last time around out of which the BJP bagged 14 seats while the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won the Aligarh and Meerut seats. Besides, this time voting will be held for the first time in Shahjahanpur.
The party is confident about its victory on all 17 seats because of the developmental works carried out under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The state government has carried out unprecedented development of cities in the last six years. Under the Smart City Mission, Integrated Command and Control Center and Intelligent Traffic Management System are working in 10 smart cities at the cost of Rs 2,000 crore. Projects totaling Rs 547 crore are underway to develop Ayodhya, Gorakhpur, Firozabad, Ghaziabad, Mathura-Vrindavan, Meerut and Shahjahanpur as smart cities under the State Smart City Scheme. In the last six years, Yogi’s focus was on providing housing to the needy. Along with this, adequate attention was also paid to toilets and cleanliness as 17.62 lakh houses were constructed under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) in the state. Under the Pradhan Mantri SVANidhi Yojana, a loan of Rs 1190 crore was made available to 10,33,132 street vendors. UP has become free from open defecation in six years. Under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), more than two crore toilets have been constructed in the state so far benefiting more than 10 crore citizens residing in urban areas. In addition, 8,99,634 individual and 69,381 community-public toilets have been constructed in urban areas.