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.
For India, it is rightly said that behind every big crime there is a policeman. Behavior of these policemen is worse than criminals sometimes. Corruption and harassment are the hallmark of police. Some of them are criminals in uniform. See, how many of them have been arrested in the case of Ram Rahim for sedition. Police reforms are long overdue.
Good going Yogi…
Mr. Samanta should demonstrate how the Police Commissioner system will take away the need of the encounter – by the way, ‘encounter’ word is a misnomer. It should be described something like a hos pursuit leading to ‘armed clash’ between the criminal and police. Commissioner system simplifies the preventive arrests and thereby may help in the maintenance of public order. It also eases issuing license for arms. But I cannot see how it helps either reducing the need of tough policing required to deal with armed criminals.
No reason why the DGP of UP should belong to a particular caste, congruent with the CM’s. That pattern is replicated upto the level of SHO. Some see Yogiji as the party’s great white hope, a future PM. From what one has observed over the last one year, the great political risk taken in appointing him as CM, custodian of one fourth of the party’s national mandate, may not pay off next year. Difficult to see any serious investor, $ 1 billion upwards, which is actually a very small number, choosing UP. Noida, being a real estate extension of Delhi, may be a small exception.