India, March 17 -- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said leaders of the earlier Samajwadi Party Government worked to serve the interests of only their own family and relatives, but for the BJP, the entire 25 crore population of the state is its family.

Speaking at a programme organised to distribute the first instalment under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) 2.0 to 90,000 families, Adityanath said the earlier Government lacked the political will to provide housing benefits to the poor despite schemes announced by the Centre in this regard.

"It was not that the prime minister had not made the announcement, the state Government did not have the will to implement it. When a person immerses in self-interest, his ...