LUCKNOW: Setting the tone for the 2022 UP assembly elections, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday released the theme song, “UP Number 1”.
The song has been woven around the achievements of the Yogi government in the past four and a half years in Uttar Pradesh, referring to the projects of the state government that brought prosperity to the state and the actions taken by the government that won appreciation from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the higher-ups in the BJP and the Sangh.
Investors summit and the investment that it brought to the state finds foremost mention along with the state government’s schemes to upgrade skills in youth and make them employment-friendly, ‘Badha nivesh toh badhi income, nivesh mila UP mein bhari bharkam’.
Composed as a rap, the song, that starts with ‘Jabse Yogiji bane CM, apna UP hai number one’, endorses brand Yogi which is already going strong after being praised by PM Narendra Modi in Varanasi and by the national BJP president JP Nadda in the executive committee meeting of UP BJP for turning UP into a leading state. The song projects that brand through its lyrics and shows that UP has shed its old image of being a laggard under the leadership of CM Yogi.
Featuring Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in action, the video shows him inaugurating the projects, addressing public gatherings, walking with an air of authority, talking to children and women and holding a Janata Darbar. PM Narendra Modi also features alongside Yogi in few clips.
While heaping praise on the CM, the lyricist has not forgotten to hand out the credit for the state’s performance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s `margdarshan’ and to the `double engine ki sarkaar’, BJP government at the centre and the state. CM Yogi, often attacks the previous Akhilesh government for not utilising the Central schemes, like PM Awas, for development of Uttar Pradesh.
‘Aagaya hai ab Ramrajya yahan’ hints towards the action taken by the CM to cleanse the state of mafia and uphold law and order. The song, in a way, is also a retort to the opposition that has always attacked the government for state of employment in UP and Covid managament besides other factors as it glorifies the efforts taken by the government in the direction, ‘Covid management, raashan vitaran, muft ilaaj sabko, vaccination, sab ore shanti hai hardam’, makes clear the Yogi government is confident of what it has done for the state in the past four years in office and mudslinging by opposition won’t deter it.
The work for which Yogi has earned maximum laurels from the higher-ups in the party and what has modelled his image of being a tough administrator is his action against rioters, those vandalising public property and people making UP unsafe for women. The song also gives credit to Yogi for that, ‘dangai, gangster, mahila apradh; sab par lagayi hai lagaam’.
‘Up ab kisi se nahin hai kam’, ‘Desh mein lahraya UP ka parcham’ reiterate that it’s because of Yogi that state has reached to where it stands today.
