Lucknow, April 14 -- Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the growth engine of India, contributing to the country's development and realising the vision of a developed India, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Monday.

Addressing the FICCI National Executive Committee Meeting, the chief minister said Uttar Pradesh is the first state in the country to have succeeded in more than doubling its GSDP and per capita income.

He targeted the previous governments, alleging that they had destroyed the state's economy, reducing per capita income to below the national average.

"Over the past 8 years, people in India and overseas have seen how the state is changing," he said. He attributed the recent growth to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership....