UP, 19/3: Completing six years in office, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday visited Ayodhya and prayed at the Hanumangarhi and Ram Lalla temple for the well being of the state.
He was also briefed about the progress of the construction of the Ram temple, to which he was told 70 per cent construction of the temple had been completed, a government statement said.
Yogi Adityanath who is the ‘Gorakshpeethadhishwar’ (head of the Gorakhpur-based ‘Goraksha Peeth’), took the oath of office for Chief Minister of UP for the first time on March 19, 2017. After the BJP emerged victorious in the 2022 UP Assembly elections, he once again took the oath on March 25, 2022.
On Saturday, Adityanath had visited Varanasi, and offered prayers at the ‘Kaal Bhairav’ temple and at the Kashi Vishwanath temple.