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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. 

3 days after man handling Yogi govt’s social media ends life, colleagues booked for abetment

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The employee, Parth Srivastava, hanged himself in Lucknow Wednesday. Based on his father's complaint that some colleagues forced him to commit suicide, a case was registered.

CM Amarinder Singh hits out at Yogi Adityanath for ‘inflammatory’ comment on Malerkotla

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The UP chief minister's tweet came a day after Singh announced, on the occasion of Eid, the decision to make the only Muslim majority town in Punjab, the state's 23rd district

CM Yogi orders patrolling by police, SDRF in UP to prevent disposing of bodies in rivers

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The directions came after several bodies were found floating in the Ganga. The UP chief minister also stressed that a fine may be imposed to ensure no one dumps bodies in rivers.

Numbers are clear. Saving rural UP from Covid catastrophe must be a national mission

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Official statistics give you no idea of the devastating pandemic that is raging through rural UP.

Gujarat, UP to rollout third Covid vaccination phase on 1 May, to target select districts only

Prashant Srivastava -
While states like Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab & Uttarakhand have said they have no vaccine doses, BJP-ruled Gujarat & UP said they were expecting doses Friday night.

In new UP system for Covid hospital admission, doctors will take call, not CMO

Prashant Srivastava -
UP ministers Jai Pratap Singh and Suresh Khanna held a meeting Wednesday to review Covid-19 situation in the state, where the controversial CMO rule was taken up.

Dr Kafeel urges CM Yogi to let him help in Covid fight, told to apply on public hearing portal

Neelam Pandey -
Dr Kafeel Khan, suspended in connection with oxygen shortage that killed 60 children in 2017 in Gorakhpur hospital, said Yogi govt can put him under suspension again once the crisis is over.

How Yogi’s UP is silently undergoing a road transformation

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In Yogi’s UP, expressways are scripting silent transformation in state known for poor road infra

Moushumi Das Gupta -
UP is building 4 expressways — 340-km Purvanchal, 296-km Bundelkhand, 91-km Gorakhpur Link and 594-km Ganga — to boost socio-economic development.

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