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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. 

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IAS officer who thrashed Unnao journalist was also part of controversial mosque demolition 

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UP BJP is set to distribute a booklet to counter the opposition’s sustained jibes of 'Covid mismanagement' by the Yogi Adityanath government.

PM Modi reviews Ayodhya’s development, says plan should manifest finest of our traditions

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Speaking at a virtual meeting with UP CM Yogi, Modi described Ayodhya as a city that is etched in the cultural consciousness & human ethos must be matched by futuristic infrastructure.

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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath was in Delhi last week, when he met PM Modi, Amit Shah & Nadda. He was instructed to ensure a course correction ahead of the 2022 assembly polls. 

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Letter by BJP MLA Brajesh Prajapati appears to suggest Thakurs, the community that the CM belongs to, were preferred for jobs at the Banda University of Agriculture and Technology.

‘Yogi managed effectively’: BJP’s BL Santhosh backs UP govt’s handling of 2nd Covid crisis

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Santhosh’s praise may put an end to speculation about the possible implications of the central BJP leadership taking a hard look at Yogi govt’s mismanagement of Covid-19.

RSS doesn’t run BJP by remote, it isn’t a school principal regulating BJP leaders as students

Arun Anand -
Commentators are predicting changes in UP based on a ‘RSS-BJP meeting’ & RSS general secretary’s 4-day Lucknow trip but fact is, the RSS-BJP relationship doesn’t work this way.
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