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TopicChief Minister Yogi Adityanath

Topic: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

Yogi Adityanath, born in 1972 as Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht, is a monk-turned-politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party or the BJP. He has been the longest-serving Chief Minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh, having been in office for over nearly seven years — since March 2017.


Head priest at the Gorakhnath temple, he first joined politics when he was named in charge of managing the election campaign for former MP Mahant Avaidyanath.


Yogi Adityanath represents the Gorakhpur urban constituency in the state legislative assembly. First elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998, he has served as the MP for Gorakhpur in the parliament. He was a member of the Legislative Council of the state between 2017 and 2022. 

Yogi Adityanath and Himanta Biswa Sarma—two outsiders playing like pros in RSS-dominated BJP

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President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurates Ramayan conclave in Ayodhya

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The President inaugurated the conclave in presence of UP Governor Anandiben Patel, CM Yogi Adityanath, others and emphasised on the importance of Lord Ram in the city of Ayodhya.

‘Adityanath spreading venom’ — IPS officer forced to retire wants to fight CM in 2022 UP polls

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Former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur, forced to retire by MHA in 'public interest' this March, had Saturday announced he would contest against CM Adityanath in UP polls.

Ex-IPS officer Amitabh Thakur, who was forced to retire, to contest poll against Adityanath

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In a statement issued Saturday, Thakur's wife Nutan said Thakur will fight elections from any constituency the incumbent Chief Minister chooses to contest from.

Ex-BSP MLA Jitendra Bablu, accused of burning down MP Rita Joshi’s home, joins BJP

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Rita Bahuguna Joshi, whose house in Lucknow was set ablaze in 2009, has put out a video statement, accusing Bablu of “hiding facts” from the state BJP leadership. 

How UP could achieve ‘population stabilisation’ by 2026-30 even without a law

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UP CM hands over cheques of Rs 10 lakh each to kin of 55 journalists who died due to Covid

PTI -
CM Yogi Adithyanath said the media did the work of sharing true and factual news during the crisis and helped the govt prepare a successful strategy.

UP Brahmins in demand for votes. SP, BSP, Congress wooing them, BJP trying hard to keep them

Prashant Srivastava -
The Congress, SP and BSP are going all-out to woo Brahmins, the community that has felt 'neglected and oppressed' under BJP's Yogi Adityanath govt.

Lower population good for India’s health. Time to get over ‘if and but’ approach

Abantika Ghosh -
The famed demographic dividend is not yet fully apparent but the negatives of a burgeoning population in a resource constrained country have been on full display.

Yogi Adityanath govt turned UP into one of India’s ‘leading states’, claims JP Nadda

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Nadda also took a jibe at the previous govt saying that UP was once afflicted by appeasement politics where a particular caste used to get benefits & the other faced harassment.
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