Lucknow, Jan. 9 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said Uttar Pradesh Diwas-2026 would be an opportunity to take the state's cultural heritage, history, economic power and development journey to a global platform.

The programme will be organised on January 24-26 as a three-day grand event in India and abroad. It should turn out to be an opportunity for people from the state residing across the country and the UP diaspora abroad to connect with their cultural roots, he added.

Yogi was presiding over a meeting convened to review the preparations for the Uttar Pradesh-Diwas 2026. The state government would celebrate the occasion across the state, at all the district headquarters, at Raj Bhavans in all the state capitals and Indi...