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.

PM Modi’s hollow 56-inch chest, and Yogi Adityanath calls BJP’s loss ‘just an accident’

Simrin Sirur - 12 December, 2018

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Yogi govt alleges scam in nutrition scheme for kids but gives contracts to ‘tainted’ firms

Krishna Kant - 12 December, 2018

Yogi Adityanath govt has given contracts to same firms it accused of supplying poor quality food to children.

BJP trailing in 59% of heartland seats Yogi Adityanath campaigned in

Pragya Kaushika - 11 December, 2018

In MP, Chhattisgarh & Rajasthan, BJP is leading in 26 of 63 seats where Yogi Adityanath campaigned, raising questions about his effectiveness.

Yogi Adityanath’s ‘Hanuman-Dalit’ remark has put off BJP’s loudest cheerleaders — seers

Pragya Kaushika - 10 December, 2018

Several seers have lashed out at Yogi Adityanath for bringing politics into religion with his comments about Hanuman’s caste.

Elevating Yogi Adityanath is becoming PM Modi’s biggest blunder now, not demonetisation

Shekhar Gupta - 10 December, 2018

Yogi Adityanath is Modi-Shah’s Frankenstein’s monster who can divide but not deliver. He may also wreck Modi’s immediate political future.

3 UP police officers transferred over Bulandshahr violence

PTI - 8 December, 2018

The Bulandshahr SSP is being replaced after the ADG, Intelligence, submitted a report on the violence over an alleged cow slaughter, which claimed the lives of a police officer and a youth.

Yogi is wrong. There’s not a shred of evidence to prove Hyderabad was called Bhagyanagar

Rohini Swamy - 7 December, 2018

The claim hinges on an apocryphal tale that a Muslim prince named the city after a Hindu dancer he was in love with, but historians say it is filled with holes.

Development with shrill Hindutva & Congress bashing marked BJP’s state poll campaigns

Ruhi Tewari - 6 December, 2018

While BJP CMs talked about vikas and pro-poor schemes, big guns such as Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath pandered to their hardcore Hindutva voter base.

‘Yogesh Raj’, prime accused in Bulandshahr violence, pleads innocence in video message

Aditi Vatsa - 5 December, 2018

Yogesh Raj, the Bajrang Dal leader accused of violence in Bulandshahr, says police is presenting him as someone with a long criminal history.

Not a tenant, but equal citizen: Owaisi hits back at Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi’s ‘nizam’ barb

PTI - 5 December, 2018

Asaduddin Owaisi said he was Indian by choice, and added Indian Muslims had rejected Muhammad Ali Jinnah's two-nation theory.

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