Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday shared a photo of him touching his mother’s feet, as she places her hand on his head in blessing.

Captioning it “Ma,” the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister posted the picture with his mother, Savitra Devi, on Twitter.

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Yogi Adityanath was in his hometown of Pauri, in Uttarakhand, to meet his mother for the first time since he became UP’s Chief Minister. He was visiting his ancestral village for the hair tonsure ceremony of his nephew, which is scheduled for Wednesday.

It is reported that Yogi Adityanath returned to Uttarakhand to attend a family function, rather than for an official engagement for the first time in 28 years. In the throes of the pandemic, the Uttar Pradesh CM had not been able to attend even his father’s funeral in April 2020 in Haridwar.

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“I had the ardent wish to get a glimpse of my father at the final moment. However, following a sense of duty towards the state’s 23 crore people during the COVID-19 pandemic, I could not do so,” CM Adityanath had said, ruining his inability to attend.

Earlier, CM Adityanath became emotional while unveiling a statue of his spiritual guru Mahant Avaidyanath at Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath Government College in his home district. 

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In his address at the function, he said he felt proud to be unveiling the statue of his spiritual guru at the place where he was born but could not visit after 1940.