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.
The case warrants Habbis Corpus petetion filed from the journalist side…. Arresting under this section is against IPC and IT act provisions amounts to illegal detention.
Interesting: UP Police struggles to justify the arrest because their coprofessionists are asking justification but Editors guild has no such dilemma as nobody can ask them questions and justifications about their actions. There are many political activists with clear political stand but have the mask of a journalist. Once a person is a journalist, he/she gets cover of editors guild which will blindly protect their brothers and sisters. However, public watches 24×7 and that’s the reason journalists’ credibility has been eroded beyond recovery and they have lost public support forever. Does editors guild really care about public opinion?
Adityanath has the habit of having people arrested for the slightest whim of his. Once he had demonstrators arrested WITHOUT BAIL merely for showing him black flags. This man is going to prove worse than Modi if he ever comes to occupy that chair. The only hope is that even the BJP leaders are wary of him, that’s why he was totally ignored for campaigning during the lok sabha elections.
सार्वजनिक पदों पर बैठे हुए लोगों तथा प्रतिष्ठित लोगों को ब्लैकमेल करने का एक जरिया पत्रकारों के बनने की आशंका को पूरी खबर में नजरअंदाज किया गया है। पत्रकारों की एकता के नाम पर किसी भी कथित पत्रकार के ऊल-जलूल हरकतों को अभिव्यक्ति की आजादी क़रार देना मीडिया के अस्तित्व के लिए खतरनाक है। विश्वसनीयता खोने का डर भी होना चाहिए।
Mishra ji, ek mahila kuchh bayaan de rahi theen, wahi uss patrakaar ne aagey kahaa. Yogi ji ko chahiye thaa uss mahila ko arrest kartey, kya pataa kuchh appreey baaton ki pushtee ho jaati. WHY ARREST THE MESSANGER?
Just a stray thought, from a lay person. What if the apex court were to take suo moto cognisance of this case. It involves fundamental rights, including liberty of a citizen and free speech. It also covers freedom of the press, absent which democracy begins to atrophy. The courts – like other public institutions – cannot be everywhere, all the time. They cannot redress all wrongs. Not all Indian citizens have the financial resources to seek effective legal redress. In a particularly egregious instance, if the apex court invests its power, authority and majesty in favour of an ordinary person who has been wronged, its intervention would be heard like a thunderclap all over the country. So – with profound respect – does its silence.