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.

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

ThePrint Team - November 27, 2017

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 - November 27, 2017

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 - November 27, 2017

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 - November 27, 2017

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

Kumar Anshuman - November 14, 2017

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.

30 ministers, one day: BJP plans blitzkrieg in battle for Gujarat

Pragya Kaushika - November 13, 2017

Central ministers as well as CMs are set to address three rallies each on one day in a massive show of strength by the BJP in Gujarat.

Taj Mahal controversy is an extension of RSS’s ideological war

Ashutosh - October 18, 2017

Ideological schizophrenia and a perverse reading of history projects the Taj Mahal as a symbol of hate and barbarism.

The shifting stance of RSS on India’s past means the debate on Taj Mahal isn’t over yet

Hilal Ahmed - October 18, 2017

It was in the book by the self-declared Hindu scholar P. N. Oak that the Taj Mahal controversy was first introduced in the 1960s.

From Lord Curzon to BJP’s Sangeet Som, Taj Mahal has many political narratives

Hilal Ahmed - October 17, 2017

Taj Mahal has always functioned as a political text, capable of producing a number of different and even conflicting meanings.

Rahul Gandhi’s US tour can’t change fact that Congress has no clarity on its strategy

Milan Vaishnav - September 22, 2017

There is no grand re-organisation or an ideological rethink in the Congress Party that a stunning electoral debacle like 2014 should have prompted.

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