Lucknow, June 5 -- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday held a meeting with members of the 16th Finance Commission in Lucknow.

While speaking with ANI, the state's Finance Minister, Suresh Khanna, said that CM Yogi laid out several demands in front of the Finance Commission. This also included a demand to increase the state's share in central taxes.

Khanna said, "...Some demands were made by the Chief Minister for the state today. Instead of the 41 per cent share we received so far, we should get 50 per cent. At the same time, Uttar Pradesh should not get less than 20 per cent in central taxes. This is our demand."

Also, the state's Deputy CM, Keshav Prasad Maurya, informed that Uttar Pradesh's last 8 years' achiev...