Shah's presence at Yogi govt event today is significant, say UP watchers

Time of India

20 hours ago

Lucknow: The presence of Union home minister Amit Shah at the Lucknow event to distribute appointment letters to the newly recruited 60,000 police constables on Sunday will have much more than a symbolic value.
When chief minister Yogi Adityanath met Shah in Delhi on June 9, the pictures of the meeting went viral, becoming a hot topic of discussion in political circles. Although it was officially termed a 'courtesy visit', sources in the UP govt told TOI that the CM called on the home minister primarily to extend an invitation to him to be the chief guest at the ceremony being organised on June 15 for the distribution of job letters to 60,000 police constables recruited recently.
Although it's a police event and the Union home minister is a natural choice to be the chief guest for this momentous occasion, it's not as simple as that in this case, say political analysts. "Shah's presence at this event of UP govt is significant considering he has not attended many such events in the past in the state," they say.
He attended two big events in the first tenure of govt headed by Yogi — the foundation-laying of forensic institute and the DGPs' meet, but both the events were primarily of the Union home ministry.
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"Defence minister Rajnath Singh, being the local MP, could have been a choice, or Yogi himself could have done it to grab the spotlight after successful completion of India's largest-ever police recruitment and training process," they say, adding, "but the invitation to Shah to do the honours is a prudent move." There have been wild speculations among Yogi's detractors about the ties between the two without much tangible evidence.
Shah's presence on the dais on Sunday will quell much of those wild guesses, say the UP watchers. So, when Shah personally hands over recruitment letters to some of the 60,000 selected police constables, in the presence of Yogi, political commentators and pundits are sure to focus on every interaction and action.
As per available records on the HM's website photo gallery and archives, both the leaders have met thrice since Dec 28 last year, when Yogi had extended the invite for Maha Kumbh.
Yogi then had met Shah during the latter's Maha Kumbh visit and one during another programme.
Only Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Delhi CM Rekha Gupta and Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav have met Shah at least one more time than Yogi.
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