Etawah, July 26 -- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said Etawah no longer evokes fear or terror and its youth no longer face an identity crisis, attributing the change to the BJP government's zero-tolerance policy towards crime and criminals.

Addressing a public gathering in Etawah, the Chief Minister alleged that before 2017, the district had suffered from an identity crisis, with fear and insecurity discouraging people from travelling through the region and deterring investment.

"Before 2017, who had created an identity crisis in front of Etawah? People who won from Etawah had created this crisis themselves. If there is an identity crisis in Etawah, then it will become Uttar Pradesh's crisis. People used to fear ...