TopicYogi Adityanath

Topic: 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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Election results reiterate that good governance and Narendra Modi are a winning combination. But for Congress, it's beyond redemption.

Equal credit to Yogi for UP but other wins are all about Modi’s popularity. BJP’s in a sweet spot

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5 Assembly elections, 7 key pointers & 3 winners: Modi, Yogi, Kejriwal

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Modi has become a colossus Indian politics hasn’t seen, Kejriwal has established a new politics of his own kind, and Yogi is the leader to watch.

Narendra Modi is going to be around for a long time. Get used to it

+TFP Vir Sanghvi - 10 March, 2022

Political parties have access to better and more detailed polls than we do. But, except for the BJP, they hardly ever pay them the attention they deserve.

Modi-Yogi, mahila-youth, media-yojana: Why BJP’s M-Y combinations in UP were unbeatable

Swadesh Singh - 10 March, 2022

‘Vikas’ is no more the Godot that never arrives because in UP, benefits did reach the target and schemes managed to breach walls of corruption.

Abki baar, lower the bar: How BJP won UP again with just rashan, bhashan, prashasan & emotion

+TFP Rama Lakshmi - 10 March, 2022

What worked is that the BJP under Modi, Amit Shah and Adityanath have spun the aspiration of the people into something they feel but not see.

Yogi Adityanath — ‘curious boy’ who became firebrand leader makes history with 2nd term as UP CM

Shikha Salaria - 10 March, 2022

In run-up to 2017 polls, Yogi had not even been declared a star campaigner by BJP in first 2 phases of election. But then his name was announced for post of CM.

If BJP wins UP, it’s because party has effectively captured popular mindscape, not booths

Yogendra Yadav - 8 March, 2022

Was the impression of a wave in favour of Akhilesh Yadav and his Samajwadi Party illusory? Not quite but exit polls for UP 2022 show we missed the real question.

For Yogi Adityanath’s views on secularism, read his essay on Nepal

Sharat Pradhan - 7 March, 2022

In ‘Yogi Adityanath’, Sharat Pradhan and Atul Chandra write about the UP chief minister’s essay where he called 18 May 2006 — the day Nepal became a secular state — a ‘Black Day’.

Yogi’s cows, Modi’s houses, Akhilesh’s jobs: Why this is a more ‘normal’ Uttar Pradesh election

Shekhar Gupta - 5 March, 2022

Caste is back, after 2014, 2017 and 2019. Joblessness is the new nationalism and religion. Too many poor people are hurting as they pay for cow protection.

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