Lakhimpur Kheri, April 12 -- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday distributed transferable and non-transferable land ownership rights documents to 331 Hindu families displaced from Bangladesh in Lakhimpur Kheri and said the government has fulfilled long-pending promises made to them decades ago.

Addressing the gathering during the inauguration and foundation stone laying ceremony of various public welfare projects, Yogi Adityanath said, "The land on which you settled decades ago, but did not receive ownership rights for, today, you have obtained ownership of that land. I have come here to fulfil, on behalf of Prime Minister Modi, the unfulfilled promises made to you decades ago."

He further announced the renaming of ...