Meerut, May 8 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said the state had moved away from the politics of "appeasement" and "fatwas" to a model focused on development and public welfare.

He also said the recent election results in West Bengal had exposed forces trying to weaken the country's social fabric through caste-based and divisive politics.

The chief minister was addressing a large public gathering at Deoband in Saharanpur district where he inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for 325 development projects worth Rs.2,131 crore.

"Earlier, government funds were spent on cemetery boundary walls, illegal encroachments and caste-communal appeasement. Today, the same money is being used for roads, universities, sports colleg...