• Breaking the Nexus: Adityanath Yogi dismantled the exploitative Nexus of contractors and politicians, eliminating Mafia leaders obstructing development.
• Infrastructure Overhaul: Initiating a three-tiered expressway system, improving telecommunication, and connecting neglected towns and villages, Yogi boosted UP's infrastructure.
• Proactive Governance: Yogi enforced accountability, ensuring bureaucrats actively implemented policies, contributing to a 150% increase in per capita income.
Adityanath Yogi won his laurels. Today there is a news reporting Rahul Gandhi trying to double down his efforts to win more seats from the most potential state of Uttar Pradesh where, last time, the Congress won only one MP seat. The second time BJP won from the Uttar Pradesh, it won more seats than the first time which did not happen in a very long time and this was because of aggressive administration by Adityanath Yogi. Adityanath Yogi when he took over the reins of the state started a four pronged strategy to jolt Uttar Pradesh from its decades old inertia of being captive to the exploitative, non productive, non developmental administration run by the Nexus of the contractors Mafia and the politicians helplessly served by the unquestioning bureaucrats. The first step he took was to break the control of the Nexus which mostly operated through Mafia leaders who terrorised the voters and who mulcted major portion of the development funds directed towards the constituency development and welfare of the people. He identified, hunted down, terrorized,even got eliminated and incarcerated almost all the Mafia leaders who were the hedious road blocks to development. The second step that he took was to improve the infrastructure in the form of providing telecommunication facilities to the remotest places, most importantly developed long express ways from east to west at 3 levels North, central and south UP which have connected very large number of towns, cities and small villages, the production centres of various kinds of products which were hitherto neglected. The third step he took was to make the bureaucrats realise that their negligence, indifference or lack of proactive involvement in implementation of the policies of Yogi government would be viewed very seriously and however high in position the officials maybe, they would not be spared. The fourth step was to conceptualise and implement one district one product policy. This policy envilisaged that the core production potential of each and every district would be identified and infrastructure in the form of road connectivity, telecommunication facilities, marketing infrastructure logistics, establishment of gowdowns and e-commerce connectivity in almost every district of the state. The result of this proactive efforts by Yogi for the first time increased the per capita income of the people 150% from 40000 to 100000. Still compared to States in the south, this per capita income is abysmally low. But the kind of infrastructure and the visionary policies that have been put in place now without any doubt will keep the state in the trajectory of sustained growth and it will telescope the period necessary for undoing all the anti development inertia that was the result of the previous governments led by the Congress, BSP and Janata Dal. The foregoing doesn't mean that everything is hunky dowry in the state. There is a long way to go to catch up with the southern states and Yogi should keep to this path of development and desist from criticizing the advanced states like Kerala which he had ignorantly compared it to Somalia. His energis are still needed in the state. Rahul Gandhi and his ilk may walk throughout the State a hundred times but it will be very difficult for them to unseat Yogi. It should also be kept in mind that this development was possible because, for every 100 rupees contributed by the state to the central exchequor, 338 rupees were devolved to the state thanks to double engine government advantage, whereas the same in the south is between 30 to 50 rupees. But when the states with such huge populations which were neglected so far developed, it will be good for the country and will justify the sacrifices made by the people of Southern India which were so far frittered away by the inane policies of the defeated parties like Congress, BJP BSP et al For the first time, there was marked improvement even in the Human Development indexes of the people of the state wrought by provision of basic amenities and quantum improvement in the delivery of social welfare benefits particularly in the field of education, health, sanitation and administrative reforms and it has attracted the investors in large numbers who are in the past scared away by the aforementioned Nexus. This fact was corroborated by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen in their book "Uncertain Glory". It must also be considered that either by terrorising or conciliation, the huge Muslim population has been coopted very well and there were few religious conflicts in the state which were earlier fomented ubiquitously in the state by the self serving politicians only for their own sake at the cost of the stability necessary for development. There are many fact based reports in the media that there were inflections of the human rights and civic rights in the form of buldozer administration a la ex-Phillepenian President Dutarte but common people do not mind them when they see development and improvement in their standards of living and peace in their living conditions. Such sustained development in the UP will, in not so distant future, see reverse migration of the workers from the southern States for which these States should take precautionary measures by automating the low level skills provided by the migrants or by upskilling the rural people to make them eligible to replace the migrants failing which growth will nose dive for lack of skilled labour.
Dr M H Prasad Rao Retd HOD Polytechnic
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