New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today heaped praises on the Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh and said the investment culture in the state has been changed from one of "red tape to red carpet" by the "double engine government".
"It has been seven years since a double-engine government was formed in UP. In the last seven years, the red tape culture in the state has been ended and a red carpet culture has been brought here," he said at an investment summit in Lucknow.
PM Modi, addressing the groundbreaking ceremony for investment proposals received during the UP Global Investors Summit 2023 held in February last year, said that Uttar Pradesh is receiving investment across sectors.
The Prime Minister also insisted that in the last seven years, crime has reduced in the state and business culture has expanded. "In the last seven years, an environment of business, development and trust has been formed in UP. The double-engine government has shown that if there is a true intention for change, nobody can stop it."
Double-engine government, an oft-repeated pitch by the BJP, means state and central governments headlined by the same party.
Launching an attack at the previous governments led by the Congress, PM Modi said, "When I speak about 'Viksit Bharat', new thinking and new direction is needed for it. Had we followed the kind of thinking that prevailed in the country for decades after independence, this would not have been possible."
The Prime Minister referred to the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra and said the vehicle with "Modi's guarantee" reached various parts of Uttar Pradesh so that there is a saturation of government welfare schemes. "We are gathered here with the resolve to build 'Viksit Uttar Pradesh' for 'Viksit Bharat'. I have been told that through technology, lakhs of people from more than 400 Vidhan Sabha seats of UP are connected to this event...7-8 years back, we couldn't even think that there could be such an atmosphere in Uttar Pradesh regarding investment and employment," he said.