Lucknow, Feb. 12 -- The Yogi Adityanath government's 10th budget speaks of its performance and financial prudence for now amid the challenge of taking Uttar Pradesh ahead on the path of development even as it paves the way for long-term goals without short-term freebies.

Finance minister Suresh Khanna acknowledged his government's focus on performance in his budget speech with the couplet "kabile tarif hai andaaz ek ek kaam ka, ga raha hai geet UP Yogi ji ke naam ka" (His style of work is praiseworthy, a song is being sung in the name of Yogiji).

The Yogi government, which presented the first ever pre-poll economic analysis in the house on Monday, has been able to push the development agenda aiming at making UP a trillion-dollar economy...