LUCKNOW, Feb. 10 -- Governor Anandiben Patel on Monday said Uttar Pradesh has "transformed into a breakthrough state from a bottleneck state" as she summed up nine years of the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government.

Addressing a joint sitting of both Houses of the Uttar Pradesh legislature on the first day of the budget session, Patel also said, "Based on financial policies and fiscal discipline, UP has become a revenue-surplus state."

In her over 30-minute address delivered amid a continuous uproar by Opposition members, she also said, "Since March 2017, UP has achieved significant milestones in the areas of good governance, robust law and order, expansion of infrastructure, employment generation and public welfare, which have laid a stro...