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.
Absolutely shocking state of UP ! While we all want the law and order situation to improve , we cannot allow extra judicial methods and brazen violation of human rights and rule of law by the State machinery to achieve that end ! I’m amazed that the govt is being allowed to get away with it while the media, the opposition and the citizenry is sitting in complete silence – how can the chief minister openly say that encounters will continue as part of govt policy – it’s an unconditional licence to exploit ,extort and kill given to the policemen and its the poor lower castes and minorities who are at the receiving end – it should have attracted huge condemnation and even suo motto judicial investigation but the pathetic state of affairs in the country especially in the state have meant that either people are too scared to speak up or actually believe that’s its perfectly acceptable for the yogi govt to do this in the ‘larger’cause of maintaining laws and order – in either case it augers very worrying days ahead for the country !
Yogiji has the wind of 325 / 403 in his sails. One Korean firm which promised to invest 90,000 crores in the state is worth a couple of million dollars. These ” encounter ” killings are bound to attract the notice of the apex court and the NHRC soonet rather than later. Very difficult to be sanguine about the success of this administration.