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Nirmal to attend UP CM’s swearing-in ceremony

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 3/19/2017 12:11:04 AM

JAMMU, Mar 18: Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh will be attending the swearing in ceremony of UP Chief Minister to be held tomorrow at Lucknow.
Yogi Adityanath, the controversial mascot of hardline Hindutva, will be the next Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Earlier in a move that surprised many, the 44-year-old five-term MP from Gorakhpur was elected the BJP Legislature Party leader at a meeting of the newly elected MLAs, a week after BJP won a resounding three-fourth majority in the key Hindi heartland state, making a comeback to power after 15 years.
State BJP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya, who was himself in contention for the top job, first announced Adityanath's election. Maurya, the MP from Phulpur in Allahabad, will be the Deputy Chief Minister apart from senior BJP leader and Lucknow Mayor Dinesh Sharma. Adityanath will be the 21st chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and the fourth from the saffron party. He will be sworn in tomorrow at a ceremony at Kanshiram Smriti Upvan at 2.15 PM where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah will be present.