Yogi Adityanath To Take Oath As Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Next Friday

New Delhi: 

Yogi Adityanath will be sworn in for his second term as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister next Friday, the BJP has said.

The ceremony will take place at Lucknow’s Ekana Stadium at 4 pm, a senior party official said.

Senior BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minster Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP national president JP Nadda, are likely to attend the event, news agency PTI reported, quoting sources.

Chief Ministers of other BJP-ruled states are also expected to attend the function, they said, adding that top leaders of opposition parties will also be invited.

Massive preparations have already begun for the function that will include beneficiaries of government schemes, they said.

Before the ceremony, Adityanath will be formally elected as the leader of the party in the assembly on Tuesday at a BJP legislature party meeting where Amit Shah and National Vice President Raghubar Das will be present as observers.

There was no word yet on the size of Adityanath’s new cabinet or names finalised for various ministries.