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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So far in India, 147 people have been found infected. Three have died so far, one of them being from the national capital. The Delhi Government was among the first in the country to announce a total shutdown of educational institutions, gyms, theatres and other places of congregations.
Come March 19, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will set a record of being the first chief minister from the BJP to complete three straight years in office in the state.
Five laboratories have been set up for testing of Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh with the help of the Central government, two in Lucknow and one each in Aligarh, Varanasi, and Gorakhpur, state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday asked people to not be afraid of the new coronavirus as the government has made adequate arrangements to contain its spread and urged them to take precautions "because prevention is better than cure".
In a rare move, the Allahabad High Court today will hear a case relating to the hoarding put up by the Uttar Pradesh government to name and shame those who indulged in the anti-CAA violence in the state.
It was an unusual sight to see a woman constable carrying her infant son in her arms as she stood on duty for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's visit on Monday.
The Uttar Pradesh government, on Sunday, transferred 12 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers. Among the transferred IPS officers is Vishwajit Mahapatra who has been made the Director General (DG), Special Investigation, while Sunil Kumar Gupta has been made ADG Telecom.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday laid the foundation stone of the 296-km-long Bundelkhand Expressway to be built at a cost of Rs 15,000 crore and said it will prove to be the development expressway of the region.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will visit Noida on March 1 (Sunday) to review law and order situation after a commissioner system was imposed in the city. The chief minister is likely to inaugurate the commissioner's office during his visit.
After Lord Hanuman hogged the limelight in the Delhi elections, the Samajwadi Party is trying hard to prove that Lord Ram was the biggest socialist of his time.
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
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