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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath in a column in the Indian Express on April 28 headlined “Story of new UP” spoke of restoring “dignity, belonging, and hope” to the state.

No child of Uttar Pradesh “should ever feel compelled to leave home in search of dignity and opportunity”, Adityanath wrote. “...Migration must be a choice, not a compulsion.” The Uttar Pradesh chief minister claimed that his administration was guided by the Jan Vishwas Siddhant policy – a “trust-based governance framework [that] replaces suspicion with partnership”.

A report published in the newspaper on the same day says that following the protest by factory workers in Noida for five days from April 9, the Gautam Buddh Nagar police have created a new post of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Industries). This officer will be supported by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, three inspectors and 25 other personnel.

Adityanath’s column and the police announcement together constitute the real policy statement of the New Uttar Pradesh. They must be read as a single document.

The chief minister writes that the youth of Uttar Pradesh were once forced to leave their janmabhoomi, or birthplaces, by “compulsion, not aspiration”. But many of the workers who protested in Noida are likely those who remained or returned – those who staked their futures on industrial employment in their home...

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