Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath says the massive mandate in the Lok Sabha polls was a mandate for creating "new India's new Uttar Pradesh" and gave a befitting reply to those parties which cheated the poor in the name of social welfare and relied on caste politics.

Adityanath says his government's focus on development helped him secure another term in the politically important state.

"While the opportunistic coalition of the SP and BSP were relying on caste politics, I kept toiling for the development of citizens rising above caste, creed or religion. This is the reason people voted for the BJP," the chief minister told PTI, giving full credit for the massive mandate to PM Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah.

"The massive mandate received in Uttar Pradesh in favour of the ruling party is the mandate for creating new India's new Uttar Pradesh. The mandate is against nepotism, casteism, corruption. It is a befitting reply to those hypocritical parties which cheated poor in the name of social welfare. It is a victory over goons of SP who were harassing our mothers and sisters by collecting goonda tax' from traders and industrialists," Adityanath said.

During the poll campaign, while Modi talked about 55 years of Congress and his five-year tenure in rallies, Adityanath presented the report card of his two-year rule.

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On the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently ordered Punjab and Haryana governments to uproot emerging gang culture' and look at the measures adopted by UP, he said, "This is the result of the commitment of our a government that in a very short span of time, the UP law and order model has set an example for other states to follow."

According to data provided by Adiyanath's aides, in the 3,539 encounters during the BJP government, 8,135 criminals were arrested and 75 killed in self-defence.