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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A Greater Noida man, Chand Quraishi (who is a trader), has been arrested by Uttar Pradesh police on charges of putting up an objectionable post against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Facebook. The trader has been arrested after a complaint was filed by local BJP leaders.
UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, on Wednesday, kicked off a major controversy when he slammed the anti-CAA protesters and made a disparaging remark on the deaths that took place during the protests.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday presented a Rs 5,12,860.72 crore budget for FY 2020-21. The budget has provisions for new schemes worth Rs 10,967.87 crore. This time around, Yogi's budget is Rs 33,159 crore more than the previous year's budget. Here's who got what.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath will be visiting Agra on Tuesday to take stock of arrangements for the visit of US President Donald Trump to the city of Taj Mahal.
Fresh ID cards are being issued to journalists after the intelligence agencies issued an alert of a possible terror attack on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath where the attacker could impersonate a journalist.
There could be a possibility of a terror attack on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, intelligence agencies have revealed. The Uttar Pradesh Police has been further alerted on the possible attack. According to the intel input, Adityanath could be attacked at the Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur.
Of late, Yogi Adityanath was seen using his iPad and reading notes at the Defence Expo 2020 in Lucknow. The government will also give training to their MLAs, who face difficulties in using their tablets.
As the 5-day-long biennial event, Defence Expo 2020 held in Lucknow concluded on Saturday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath termed the state as the 'Mahakumbh' with reference to defence equipment manufacturing companies' gathering.
On the second day of 11th Defence Expo 2020, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed a seminar organized by UPEIDA and FICCI at DefExpo-2020 on Thursday.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath had said on February 1 that the Arvind Kejriwal government "supplies biryani" to protesters at Shaheen Bagh
Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a trust for Ram temple construction, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has approved a proposal to allot five acres of land to the Sunni Waqf Board in Ayodhya for construction of a mosque as directed by the Supreme court.
The Uttar Pradesh government has, so far, cleared subsidy worth over Rs 112.4 million for 16 Hindi and six Bhojpuri films.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday accused Arvind Kejriwal of having a "partnership" with Pakistan and appealed to the people in Delhi to not vote for the AAP chief as it will make Pakistan happy.
While addressing an election rally in Delhi's Badarpur, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday attacked the anti-CAA protestors in Shaheen Bagh area.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday demanded the Election Commission to ban Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from campaigning in the national capital over his alleged provocative speeches.
Lashing out at the people protesting against the new citizenship law, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday alleged that those who supported terrorists in Kashmir were staging a protest in Shaheen Bagh and raising slogans of 'azadi'.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also performed ‘puja' on the banks of Sangam and later participated in a photo session at the ‘selfie point'. A video of the chief minister taking a holy dip was posted on Twitter.
When UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath embarks on his ambitious Ganga Yatra from Monday, eight union ministers including home minister Amit Shah, and 56 ministers from Uttar Pradesh, will be a part of the event.
The drive initiated by Uttar Pradesh's Yogi Adityanath government to identify non-Muslim immigrants in the state seems to have run into rough weather. In Pilibhit, where the maximum number of about 35,000 illegal immigrants has been identified, it has now been found that information is being sought by the state government on an unverified document.
Ajay Devgn, Kajol and Saif Ali Khan starrer Tanhaji: The Unsung Watrrior has been ruling the box office even though it clashed with Deepika Padukone’s Chhapaak.
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