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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Though there is no official word on whether there will be a Cabinet expansion in Uttar Pradesh, sources said Jitin Prasada, who comes from a noted Brahmin family of the state with political heft, and AK Sharma may be accommodated in such an eventuality.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi. He will meet PM Modi on Friday.
At least 16 people have been killed after a bus fell off a bridge in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur on Tuesday night.
Uttar Pradesh has administered over 2 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine till now with over 30 lakh jabs given to beneficiaries in the 18-44 age group.
Special 'pink booths' will start functioning in Uttar Pradesh from today to encourage women to take Covid vaccine.
Orphans aged up to 10 years, who do not have any guardian or extended family to take care of them, will be rehabilitated in five Rajkiya Bal Grah (children's shelter homes) in Uttar Pradesh. These shelter homes are in Mathura, Lucknow, Prayagraj, Agra, and Rampur.
Uttar Pradesh recorded 1,500 cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, registering a decline of 95 per cent from its peak in April.
In a bid to understand the prevalence of COVID-19 in the urban and remote areas of Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed to conduct a "sero survey" in the state.
Devendra Pratap Singh, BJP MLA from Amapur, passed away on Monday morning following a cardiac arrest. He was 55.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday launched a welfare scheme for children who have lost either one or both parents to COVID-19.
The COVID-19 death toll in Uttar Pradesh crossed 20,000 on Friday with 159 more people succumbing to the disease in a day, while the infection tally reached 16,86,138 with 2,402 new cases, officials said on Friday.
Adityanath has rubbished charges that the government is hiding coronavirus death figures, saying "everything is available on the portal" and data is updated daily.
From June 1, people in the age group of 18 to 44 will be vaccinated in all districts. The chief minister said that 10.50 lakh people in the age group of 18 to 44 have been vaccinated in the state.
Meanwhile, the NSA has been invoked against a man who was arrested last month for alleged black marketing of Remdesivir injections, police said on Saturday. The accused, Sachin Kumar of Haryana, was arrested along with two medical representatives, Kanpur Police Commissioner Asim Arun said.
In view of the prevailing pandemic situation in the country, Uttar Pradesh has further extended Corona curfew in the state till May 31, 7 am. The lockdown was supposed to end on May 24 but has now been extended for another week.
Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in the country to conducted as many as 3.7 Covid tests in a single day.
Cases of black fungus have been reported in various parts of the country including Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Bihar.
A 100-bed COVID-19 care facility started in a community health centre in Gautam Buddh Nagar's rural Jewar area on Thursday with support from local authorities and foreign aid, BJP leader and local MLA Dhirendra Singh said.
In a letter to Adityanath, Priyanka Gandhi said the second wave of the pandemic has severely affected the masses and people have had to bear "unbearable pain" due to the alleged lack of preparation on the part of the administration.
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