India News | Meeting with BJP Top Brass, Including PM Modi, Amit Shah, Rajnath, on Yogi's Delhi Itinerary

New Delhi [India], March 13 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday began the two-day visit to the national capital, as he's scheduled to meet the top brass of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, to discuss the government formation in the state.

Adityanath will also call on Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu. He is also slated to meet the BJP chief J P Nadda and the party's national general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh.

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Discussion on the names of probable faces in the new state Cabinet is likely to be on the top agenda during the deliberations of Adityanath with the top brass of the BJP.

According to the party sources, Adityanath is likely to meet the Prime Minister at around 5 pm today at his residence.

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Yogi will also visit the party headquarters and meet the leaders. He will meet Santhosh at around 1 pm which will be followed by the meeting with the Vice President at around 3 pm.

Adityanath is expected to meet Nadda at around 6 pm.

This is Adityanath's first visit to the national capital after winning the second Assembly elections in a row in Uttar Pradesh.

Following the massive victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Adityanath on Friday held a meeting with his ministerial colleagues at the party office in Lucknow. Adityanath, a monk-turned-politician, won his first-ever Assembly election by a margin of 1,03,390 from Gorakhpur Urban constituency, defeating the Samajwadi Party candidate Subhawati Upendra Dutt Shukla, who secured 62,109 votes in the recently-concluded UP Assembly elections.

Adityanath will be the first Chief Minister in the last 37 years to return to power after completing a full term in the state. (ANI)

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