Haj house in Lucknow painted saffron

LUCKNOW: After Uttar Pradesh secretariat annex building donned saffron hue, its time for the Haj House in Lucknow to be painted in the saffron tinge.
Painting the walls of the UP Haj House in Lucknow in saffron hue erupted a controversy with opposition parties slamming the government.
However, Mohsin Raza, UP Minister, came to the rescue of the government.

"There is no need for controversy in such things, saffron is an energetic and bright looking colour, the building looks beautiful. Opposition has no big issues against us so they raise inconsequential things," Mohsin Raza said on Haj House being painted saffron.

Earlier the BJP government in UP had painted the secretariat annex building, which houses the offices of chief minister Yogi Aditya Nath and top bureaucrats, saffron on a part of the facade and boundary wall.
In September, the state government had rolled out saffron buses. The department of energy, too, had come up with a scheme wherein electricity connections to unauthorised colonies would be provided through poles painted saffron. The information department's official site and booklet have a saffron tinge as well.
The UP estate department had started painting the annex saffron, or 'bhagwa', after getting the CM's nod. Estate officer Yogesh Kumar Shukla had said that the colour was chosen after consultation with the CM, chief secretary Rajive Kumar and urban development minister Suresh Khanna. "The building needs repair and a paint job. The saffron colour was chosen since it was liked by everyone," he had said.
The annexe has traditionally been white and light yellow. "This is the first time that a peculiar colour code has been chosen by the state government," said a senior official in the secretariat.