Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yogi Adityanath is the current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Adityanath, also the Mahant (chief priest) of the Gorakhnath Math, Gorakhpur, has been sitting at the helm of state affairs since 2017 when the saffron party stormed to power with a brute majority, dethroning then ruling Samajwadi Party. In this election, the BJP has fielded him from the Gorakhpur Sadar seat. He is running for MLA for the first time. Adityanath was sworn in as the Chief Minister of the country's most populous state on March 19 in 2017. He was then a member of Lok Sabha, representing the Gorakhpur constituency. He won from Gorakhpur constituency in every Lok Sabha election held since 1998 before being given the responsibility to lead a state where politics mostly revolved around caste and religion for decades. Under Adityanath's rule, Uttar Pradesh saw a massive infrastructure development push, a boost in economic activities and improvement in the law-and-order situation. Known for his outspoken attitude, Adityanath has been a prominent campaigner for the BJP in elections. The BJP is banking on the development works undertaken by the Adityanath government and the leader's charisma in the run-up to the high-stakes assembly polls in 2022. Adityanath in his rallies has been pitching for another term to the saffron party, highlighting that the BJP government has worked towards making UP bhrashtachar mukt, bhaya mukt, danga mukt, gaddha mukt aur andhkaar mukt (free of corruption, fear, riots, potholes and darkness) in the last five years.
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20 senior IAS officers, including Principal Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal were today transferred in the first major bureaucratic reshuffle by Yogi Adityanath government.
Members of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, an outfit founded by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, today barged into a house in Meerut and allegedly roughed up a Muslim man and a woman belonging to another faith.
The task force will comprise of minister from the concerned department, along with all women ministers from the Cabinet. They will hold talks with women organisations to know the opinion of Muslim women on the matter.
A chaotic scene was today witnessed outside the official residence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath here. The crowd gathered here to meet the CM had gone berserk to enter the compound of the house.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, during the second Cabinet meet on Tuesday, scrapped the ‘Samajwadi Pension Scheme’ of the erstwhile SP government and ordered a detailed review of its beneficiaries.
Continuing his approach of speedy action and hard-hitting decisions, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will chair the second cabinet meet today.
Police stopped a church event attended by more than 150 people, including 10 American tourists, near Gorakhpur after Yogi Adityanath's Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV) alleged that religious conversion was being carried out.
Amid the row over 'Vande Mataram', Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today hit out at those refusing to sing the national song saying it reflected their "narrow mindedness".
Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday ordered suspension of government doctors who were caught running private practice on camera by India TV.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday warned that those protesting against shifting of liquor shops from taking law into their hands.
Ever since taking charge as the CM, Adityanath has held several high-level meetings. In the first Cabinet meeting held earlier this week, he had waived off farm loan of up to Rs 1 lakh.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has made it clear that those who are not violating the law of the land have nothing worry about the crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses setting up of anti-Romeo squads.
Two days after the Uttar Pradesh government cleared a proposal to waive off crop loans totalling Rs 36,359-crore, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today frowned upon it, terming it as a ‘moral hazard’.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday requested MBBS graduates to offer their services in rural areas for at least two years saying it will make the services better in these areas besides cutting off the urban load.
In his TV interview ever since he became the UP CM, Yogi Adityanath opened up on a wide range of issues, from ban on slaughterhouses and unemployment in the state to standards of education and situation of law and order.
The Allahabad High Court has observed that the choice of food, food habits and trade in foodstuff were part of right to life and livelihood guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.
In a presentation the police department is to soon make to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, 1090 has been included as a successful project that needs to be followed up with more manpower and financial muscle
Amid the raging debate over cow-slaughter in India, a top Shia cleric from Iraq has issued a fatwa urging minorities not to kill the animal, considered sacred in Hinduism.
A day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced crop loan waiver up to Rs 1 lakh, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said the state government will study the UP model of farm loan waiver worth Rs 36,000 crore.
A day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath waived off loans up to Rs 1 lakh of small and marginal farmers in the state, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi termed the move as a “partial relief” but “a step in the right decision”.
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