GORAKHPUR, March 26 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said that "mafia and mosquitoes have gone underground" over the past nine years, highlighting improvements in law and order and public health in the state.

He was addressing a gathering at Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology (MMMUT) in Gorakhpur afterperforming the ground-breaking ceremony for a 144-bed girls' hostel at MMMUT, to be built under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funding at a cost of Rs.13.67 crore.

"You wanted treatment for encephalitis, but the double engine government eradicated encephalitis. We spoke of relief from the mafia. Uttar Pradesh is now free from mafia and riots. Festivals are being celebrated not under the shadow of nuisance bu...