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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. 

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

ThePrint Team -
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

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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

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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.

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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.

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