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Senior BJP leader and five times Member of Parliament, Ram Naik, who was appointed as the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, on Monday said that his agenda was to advice the State Government on crucial matters of unemployment, law and order and improving higher education.
Addressing the media after the announcement from New Delhi, Naik said “I want to act as bridge between the Centre and the UP Government. I have no desire to play any politics and destabilise the State Government. It is not in my nature,” he said.
Naik pointed that UP Government is facing a lot problems, especially on the law and order front, “The State also has 27 universities and I being the Chancellor of these universities. My agenda is to help improve the situation in the State,” he said.
The 80-years old veteran leader has been with the party right since inception. He started his career as an upper division clerk. In 1969 he joined full times politics as a member of Jan Sangh. The high point of his career was the appointment as Union Minister for Petroleum in 1999.
He is the last Indian minister to have meet Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.
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