Lucknow, March 27 -- Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the government's first priority was to protect the poor and the daily wage earners as the lockdown would financially hit them very badly because "as a sanyasi, I believe that serving humanity is serving God".
"I am a chief minister but before that I am a yogi and a sanyasi. My background is connected with Hindu mutt which is dedicated to manav sewa. Nar Sewa, Narayan Sewa' is the mantra of Hindu philosophy. I have seen the dedication of mandirs and mutts towards serving humanity, particularly the poor and the downtrodden," the chief minister said in a freewheeling interview to this reporter in the state capital.
"Therefore, when we talked about lockdown to contain the spread of...