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.

AAP demands campaign ban on Yogi Adityanath in Delhi

PTI - February 2, 2020

While campaigning in Delhi, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister said every terrorist was being identified, and fed a bullet instead of biryani.

UP Police didn’t become anti-Muslim under Yogi. Look at secular Congress’ bloody past

Asim Ali - January 27, 2020

It was 1972 and Indira Gandhi was the PM and HM. Muslims were protesting a law curtailing autonomy of AMU. And then secular Congress set a template for state action.

BJP CMs to join Modi and Shah as star campaigners for Delhi, 5,000 public meetings planned

Neelam Pandey - January 22, 2020

CMs such as UP’s Yogi Adityanath and Haryana’s M.L. Khattar will join Union ministers in conducting small public meetings ahead of 8 February Delhi elections.

UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s close aide Sunil Singh joins Samajwadi Party

PTI - January 18, 2020

Welcoming Singh to the SP fold, party chief Akhilesh Yadav said the Adityanath government's days are numbered.

What’s inside UP Police’s intel reports on Yogi Adityanath’s Hindu Yuva Vahini

Ashutosh Bhardwaj - January 17, 2020

I looked at annual reports of UP Police’s intelligence units on the Hindu outfit that Adityanath formed in 2002. Here's what officers wrote over the years.

Why 100 UP BJP MLAs are upset with Yogi, and questioning his ‘zero-tolerance’ on corruption

Prashant Srivastava - January 13, 2020

BJP MLAs staged a sit-in protest against CM Yogi Adityanath in the assembly on 17 December, and their anger doesn’t seem to have subsided even now.

Govt instigated CAA violence, Congress’ Sadaf Jafar says after release from police custody

Prashant Srivastava - January 8, 2020

Sadaf Jafar and former IPS officer S.R. Darapuri, arrested in Lucknow last month after violent protests broke out over CAA, were released Tuesday.

Congress’ big plan to take on Yogi Adityanath — cow day-care centres in UP

Deeksha Bhardwaj - January 6, 2020

Priyanka Gandhi sent 132-member team to Chhattisgarh last month to study CM Baghel's flagship initiative of gothaans or cow shelters, strategies to tackle BJP & RSS.

UP cop accuses 5 IPS officers of corruption, ganging up with extortionists in letter to DGP

Ananya Bhardwaj - January 3, 2020

Vaibhav Krishna, a 2010-batch IPS officer, has accused the 5 officers of conniving with builders, extortionists and journalists to ensure “transfers and postings”.

PM Modi spent first term collecting diplomatic capital, second can’t be about firefighting

ThePrint Team - December 31, 2019

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