Yogi2.0: Ekana stadium bursts in saffron hue

Lucknow, March 25 : From commoners to BJP workers to top notch industrialists and Bollywood biggies have turned one of the largest stadium here into a Mahakumbh for Yogi2.0 swearing-in ceremony on Friday. The special invitations to Bollywood personalities Amitabh Bachchan, Kangana Ranaut and Akshay Kumar, or top India Inc Gautam Adani, Anand Mahindra, cannot lessen the fervour or importance that an 18 year-old first time voter felt when he entered the Ekana stadium that has a capacity of 50,000 spectators. Big screens are buzzing with songs from Bhojpuri to Hindi with barely an hour left for Yogi Adityanath to take his oath of office as Uttar Pradesh chief minister for a second time, a historic achievement for a CM who has completed a full term to retain his position. Sources in Mumbai BJP office confirmed who’s who from every field will be present as the grand stage set will host Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had left no stone unturned to see BJP retained the. crucial state. Modi, the chief guest of the function will lead his entourage of on Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, besides party president JP Nadda, among others. Along with Adityanath, over 50 of his cabinet ministers are expected to take oath. Bhojpuri stars-turned-politicians Manoj Tiwari and Ravi Kishan were seen entertaining the crowds to loud cheers. While the big names have landed in choppers and planes, there are some at the stadium, who have walked kilometres to reach the venue as it was their “mannat” that has been fulfilled. People have walked from Aligarh, Ayodhya, some in yellow, some in saffron, some white kurta and dhoti to watch their “babaji” take the “shapath” to fulfill more promises after making “Ayodhya a reality”. Some of these people started their journey at the break of dawn to be at the event. “Jai Ram” chants resounded at the Ekana stadium. The in-the-news team of “The Kashmir Files” has also been invited and actor Anupam Kher and director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri were expected at the event. Cavalcades of ministers have started approaching the stadium, routes are in place, and Lucknow is all decked at every corner and crossings. It was already informed earlier that top industrialists, including Chairman of Reliance Group Mukesh Ambani, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Kushargra Bajaj, Anand Mahindra, Sanjeev Goenka, Gautam Adani, Sudhir Mehta and Darshan Hiranandani have been invited. Chief Ministers of Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Assam, Arunachal, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Manipur and Goa have been invited. The chief ministers of those governments running with the support of the BJP in Bihar, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Puducherry have been invited to attend the event. Former Governor of Uttar Pradesh Ram Naik had already confirmed and will be attending the event. Sources said that Yogi has personally invited Samajwadi Party (SP) patron Mulayam Singh Yadav. Invitations have also been extended to SP president Akhilesh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati. AAA AB ING

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