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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. 

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BJP has a secret trump card for Tripura: Yogi Adityanath

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Tripura has a sizeable population of Bengalis who belong to the Nath community, Adityanath’s sect; BJP feels UP CM will help consolidate Hindu votes.

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Out of the declared 5390 nagar panchayat member seats, the BJP could win only in 662 wards.

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The victory comes at a time when the BJP is aiming to win all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state in the 2019 general election.

Talk Point: Does CM Yogi Adityanath’s statement on encounter killings reveal UP government’s official position?

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A response by experts to U.P. CM Yogi Adityanath's controversial remarks that criminals would "either be sent to jail or killed in police encounters."

Encounters are not the way to punish criminals in a democracy

Ujjwal Nikam -
Every person whether he is a criminal or not has a right to be heard, therefore I won’t approve the idea of encountering, that is killing in a fake encounter.

Yogi’s remark on encounters will encourage police to take short cuts

Vappala Balachandran -
Uttar Pradesh is notorious for police atrocities. The statement can encourage “encounter-killing” as a short-cut to detailed prosecution and trial.

Yogi Adityanath makes it explicit that some people have a licence to kill

Colin Gonsalves -
Adityanath's statement makes it explicit that the BJP has very little regard for the law of this country, and that certain persons believe that they have a license to kill.

40 rallies in 14 days: Yogi begins his marathon campaign for civic polls

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Yogi Adityanath is the first UP chief minister to campaign for local body elections, calls these polls a referendum on his 7-month-old government.
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