There have been reports of a growing political tussle between the central government and the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh which goes to poll next year. Speculations of a rift are circulating amid PM Modi’s mishandling of COVID-19 and Adityanath facing flak over the rising number of dead bodies found in Ganga. UP CM has dismissed rumours of BJP’s unhappiness with his leadership. On June 10, he met Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi. A photograph from the meeting shows Adityanath handing over a book to him titled ‘कोविड-19 एवं प्रवासी संकट का समाधान: उत्तर प्रदेश पर एक रिपोर्ट’’.

(Link https://twitter.com/myogiadityanath/status/1402982193740218373?s=19)

The next day, Adityanath presented the book to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and BJP President JP Nadda. The photo with Nadda shows an English version of the same report – ‘COVID-19 & The Migrant Crisis Resolution: A Report On Uttar Pradesh’.

(Link https://twitter.com/myogiadityanath/status/1403256251669106691?s=19)

News agency UNI reported, “As a testimony of some excellent work in tackling probably the biggest migrant crisis in about a century, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath handed over a copy of the book to Prime Minister Narendra Modi released on the study conducted by Harvard University.”

“In fact, CM Yogi presented three books to PM Modi, one regarding the study of Harvard University, another the similar study by John Hopkins University and the third one by the suggested model of ascertaining Gross Domestic Product at the district level,” the report added.

(Link https://archive.is/XzhcB )

The Daily Pioneer reported the same on June 12.

(Link https://archive.is/gFnSk )

THE STUDY IS NOT BY HARVARD
The book handed over by Adityanath to the Home Minister is the Hindi translation (‘कोविड-19 एवं प्रवासी संकट का समाधान: उत्तर प्रदेश पर एक रिपोर्ट’) of the study ‘COVID-19 & The Migrant Crisis Resolution: A Report On Uttar Pradesh’. The cover page of the book has two logos – Institute For Competitiveness (IFC) and Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC), an affiliate network of Harvard Business School.

To be continued .....