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.

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

Pragya Kaushika - December 10, 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 - December 10, 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 - December 8, 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 - December 7, 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 - December 6, 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 - December 5, 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 - December 5, 2018

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

Barkha Dutt says Indian media isn’t being truthful either about cow terrorism or Yogi Adityanath

Barkha Dutt - December 5, 2018

In this week's News Ka Juice, Barkha Dutt looks at the murder of inspector Subodh Kumar Singh in Uttar Pradesh and the rhetoric of the Yogi Adityanath government.

Where was Yogi Adityanath when Bulandshahr was burning?

Aditi Vatsa - December 5, 2018

Yogi Adityanath addressed 2 rallies, attended a sound and light show and when he finally took stock of the incident, a day later, he centred it on cow slaughter.