<p class="title rtejustify">Authorities in the national capital can take a leaf out of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's advice on ways to tackle the monkey menace in the VIP zone.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Adityanath, when told about the monkey menace in the temple town of Vrindavan in state's Mathura district, about 400 km from here, came out with a divine solution to resolve the problem.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"Recite Hanuman Chalisa (hymns praising the deeds of Lord Hanuman, the monkey god).....perform their (monkey) arti (worshiping with lighted earthen lamps)....they will not harm you," the chief minister told a group of people, who complained about the menace and asked him to do something, at an event at Vrindavan on Friday evening.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"Love the monkeys and they will become your friends...don't try to shoo them away," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The chief minister, who was also the head of the Gorakhnath Temple in Gorakhpur, also shared his personal experience to drive home his magic mantra.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">He said that a monkey often used to enter his office in the temple and sat on his lap while he worked there. "I gave it a banana....it came again the next day and later it started coming daily...it would come, take the banana and go away," Adityanath said.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">One day an employee at the temple tried to shoo it away which angered the monkey and it pounced on him. "The monkey was a wild one, not a pet," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">It remains to be seen if the victims of the monkey menace try the Adityanath formula and resolve the problem.</p>
<p class="title rtejustify">Authorities in the national capital can take a leaf out of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's advice on ways to tackle the monkey menace in the VIP zone.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Adityanath, when told about the monkey menace in the temple town of Vrindavan in state's Mathura district, about 400 km from here, came out with a divine solution to resolve the problem.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"Recite Hanuman Chalisa (hymns praising the deeds of Lord Hanuman, the monkey god).....perform their (monkey) arti (worshiping with lighted earthen lamps)....they will not harm you," the chief minister told a group of people, who complained about the menace and asked him to do something, at an event at Vrindavan on Friday evening.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"Love the monkeys and they will become your friends...don't try to shoo them away," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The chief minister, who was also the head of the Gorakhnath Temple in Gorakhpur, also shared his personal experience to drive home his magic mantra.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">He said that a monkey often used to enter his office in the temple and sat on his lap while he worked there. "I gave it a banana....it came again the next day and later it started coming daily...it would come, take the banana and go away," Adityanath said.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">One day an employee at the temple tried to shoo it away which angered the monkey and it pounced on him. "The monkey was a wild one, not a pet," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">It remains to be seen if the victims of the monkey menace try the Adityanath formula and resolve the problem.</p>
