Kalyan Singh was the first Chief Minister of BJP in Uttar Pradesh.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that Kalyan Singh ‘Babu Ji’ was the first Chief Minister of Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh. When he took over the reins of Uttar Pradesh in 1991, there was chaos, anarchy, hooliganism and terrorist activities were on the rise. Villages, poor, farmers, youth and women were not getting the benefits of the government schemes. On one hand there was mismanagement and on the other hand Hindu society was struggling to get rid of 500 years of slavery.