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Yogi Adityanath | |
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 Adityanath in 2023 | |
| 21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 19 March 2017 | |
| Governor | Ram Naik Anandiben Patel (Incumbent) |
| Deputy | Brajesh Pathak (2022–present) Keshav Prasad Maurya (2017–present) Dinesh Sharma (2017–2022) |
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| Preceded by | Akhilesh Yadav |
| Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 10 March 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Radha Mohan Das Agarwal |
| Constituency | Gorakhpur Urban |
| Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council | |
| In office 18 September 2017 – 22 March 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Yashwant Singh |
| Succeeded by | Daya Shankar Mishra |
| Constituency | Elected by members of the UPLA |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 5 October 1998 – 21 September 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Mahant Avaidyanath |
| Succeeded by | Praveen Kumar Nishad |
| Constituency | Gorakhpur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht[1] 5 June 1972 Panchur, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Political party |  Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Residence(s) | 5, Kalidas Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Alma mater | Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (BSc, Mathematics) |
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| Website | www |
| Personal | |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Denomination | Shaivism |
| School | Yoga |
| Lineage | Guru Gorakhnath |
| Sect | Nath Sampradaya |
| Organization | |
| Temple | Gorakhnath Math |
| Religious career | |
| Guru | Mahant Avaidyanath |
| Period in office | 2014–present |
| Predecessor | Mahant Avaidyanath |
| Ordination | 12 September 2014 |
| Post | Mahant |
Yogi Adityanath (born Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht; 5 June 1972)[6][1][7][a][9] is an Indian Hindu monk and politician, belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party who has been serving as the Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh since 19 March 2017. He is the longest serving chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, being in office for 7 years,[10] and the only UP chief minister to have two consecutive terms.[11]
Previously, Yogi Adityanath served as a member of India's parliament for almost two decades, from 1998 until 2017. At the age of 26, he became one of the youngest Indian parliamentarians in 1998 and went on to win the next five consecutive terms from Gorakhpur (Lok Sabha Constituency).[9][12] In 2017, he moved from central to the UP state politics and was elected as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.[13] Initially, in 2017, he became a member of the UP legislative council. Subsequently, in 2022, he became a member of the state legislative assembly, having won the election from Gorakhpur Urban (assembly constituency).
Adityanath is also the mahant (head priest) of the Gorakhnath Math, a Hindu monastery in Gorakhpur, a position he has held since September 2014 following the death of Mahant Avaidyanath, his spiritual Guru.[14][15][16] He is the founder of Hindu Yuva Vahini, a Hindu nationalist organisation.[17][18] He has an image of a Hindutva nationalist and a social conservative.[1][19][20][21]
- ^ a b c Ellen Barry (18 March 2017), "Firebrand Hindu Cleric Yogi Adityanath Picked as Uttar Pradesh Minister", The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 March 2017, retrieved 25 March 2017
- ^ Barry, Ellen; Raj, Suhasini (12 July 2017). "Firebrand Hindu Cleric Ascends India's Political Ladder". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
Adityanath, born Ajay Singh Bisht, found his vocation in college as an activist in the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right-wing Hindu organization.
- ^ "Who's the Hindu hardliner running India's most populous state?". BBC. Archived from the original on 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
The son of a forest ranger, Yogi Adityanath was born in 1972 in Garhwal (which was then in Uttar Pradesh but is now in Uttarakhand state) and was named Ajay Singh Bisht.
- ^ "Yogi Adityanath: The monk who would be CM again". The Print. Archived from the original on 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
Born Ajay Singh Bisht in Pauri Garhwal's Panchur (now Uttarakhand), on June 5, 1972
- ^ "How Yogi transformed himself for the third time". Times of India. 24 March 2022. Archived from the original on 2 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
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- ^ Who is Yogi Adityanath? MP, head of Gorakhnath temple and a political rabble-rouser Archived 20 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Hindustan Times, 6 April 2017.
- ^ In The End, This Is What Worked In Yogi Adityanath's Favour Archived 18 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine, 18 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Member Profile: 16th Lok Sabha". Lok Sabha. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- ^ "Yogi Adityanath Became the Longest Serving Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh". Drishti IAS. Archived from the original on 6 April 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ^ "Yogi Adityanath now CM with longest unbroken tenure in UP". The Times of India. 1 March 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "In Lok Sabha, Yogi Adityanath takes a dig at Rahul-Akhilesh partnership", The Times of India, 21 March 2017, archived from the original on 22 March 2017, retrieved 22 March 2017
- ^ Singh, Akhilesh (22 March 2017). "Yogi, Parrikar and Maurya to stay MPs till President polls in July". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 24 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^ Mukul, Sushim (22 June 2024). "Chief Minister Yogi, Gorakhnath and Ram Lalla- A history of 75 years". India Today. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ Jha 2014, p. 110.
- ^ "Yogi Adityanath, Hindutva Firebrand, Is The New CM Of UP". Huffington Post India. 18 March 2017. Archived from the original on 22 March 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ Jha, Prashant (1 January 2014). Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal. Oxford University Press. p. 110. ISBN 9781849044592.
- ^ Violette Graff and Juliette Galonnier (20 August 2013). "Hindu-Muslim Communal Riots in India II (1986-2011)". Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence; Sciences Po.: 30, 31. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.692.6594.
- ^ Jha, Dhirendra K. (27 June 2017). "The fall and rise of India's Yogi Adityanath". www.aljazeera.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ Wildman, Sarah (20 March 2017). "India's prime minister just selected an anti-Muslim firebrand to lead its largest state". Vox. Archived from the original on 13 April 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
- ^ "Wag the dog: On Yogi Adityanath as UP CM". The Hindu. Editorial. 20 March 2017. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
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