Yogi attends workshop to know why BJP lost by-elections

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attended a workshop here on Monday to analyze the reasons for the BJP's defeat in the Lok Sabha by-elections in Kairana, Phulpur and Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.

The Chief Minister reached the venue at the Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology (RKGIT) at 11.30 a.m. and left at 2 p.m. 

On his way out, Adityanath told the media that law and order had improved in Uttar Pradesh and that the Bharatiya Janata Party, despite the recent reverses, had increased its vote percentage.

The BJP had now decided to garner 50 percent of all votes polled.

The workshop was attended by BJP leaders from western Uttar Pradesh including union Ministers Mahesh Sharma and Gen. V.K. Singh and Noida MLA Pankaj Singh.  - IANS