Yogi Adityanath is India's best chief minister, says Yahoo poll
Some time ago, we gave you a list of the top 10 most popular chief ministers in India today.
We had asked you, our readers, to register your vote on who you think, takes the crown of 'Best CM in India in 2020-2021'.
We had an avalanche of votes, as almost 300,000 of you sent in your votes.
Basis your votes in the poll, here are the results:
In third place, we have S Jagan Mohan Reddy - CM of Andhra Pradesh
(He got 13% votes)
In second place, we have Pinarayi Vijayan - CM of Kerala
(He got 17% votes)
And in FIRST place, we have Yogi Adityanath - CM of Uttar Pradesh
(He got a whopping 33% votes)
With UP going into election season soon, UP CM Adityanath is very much in the news. Setting a record of being the first BJP chief minister to complete three straight years in office in Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath had told the press that his government has succeeded in changing people's perception of the state and led it on the path of development, trust and good governance.
About the law-and-order situation in Uttar Pradesh, the chief minister said, 'In this biggest state of the country, the government has succeeded in maintaining law and order which was in a very poor state during previous regimes. There is no riot in the state and crime is on the decline.'
Adityanath said that dacoity cases have registered a 60% decline, murder cases have seen 21% dip while there have been reduction in cases of extortion and rape too.
'In the past three years, the BJP government in the state has succeeded in changing the perception of the state. We have taken the state on the path of development, trust and good governance due to guidance and support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,' Adityanath told the press.
Honorable mentions to:
Naveen Pattnaik - CM of Odisha in fourth place (10% votes).
Mamata Banerjee - CM of Bengal in fifth place (8% votes).
And Arvind Kejriwal - CM of Delhi and Uddhav Thackeray - CM of Maharashtra in joint sixth place (6% votes).
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(Inputs from PTI)
