India, May 4 -- LUCKNOW Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said when he took charge in 2017, no bank chairman or CMD was willing to even take his call given Uttar Pradesh's "dire financial situation", but since then, the state has transformed from "BIMARU to revenue surplus".

"When the government was formed in 2017, the treasury was empty. We had to fulfil our election promises, but no bank chairman or CMD was ready to take my calls. It meant no one wanted to lend to UP. In that difficult phase, we decided to increase our own resources," he said.

"Today, Uttar Pradesh is a revenue surplus state and is capable of completing even large infrastructure projects through its own financial resources," added the CM.

Adityanath was addres...