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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Bisada: An outfit floated by BJP MP Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday offered all possible help “including guns” to the Hindus of Bisada village, as it alleged that they were being hounded following the lynching of
Lucknow: BJP MP Yogi Adityanath today lashed out at Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for writing to the UN over the Dadri lynching case and said it was an attempt to earn "cheap publicity" through
Bihar Assembly polls: Decision on seat-sharing todayNew Delhi: Ahead of the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls, former state chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi met Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Saturday over discusions related to
Ballia (UP): Demanding a CBI probe into killing of Journalist Jagendra Singh in Shahjahanpur, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has said that justice could not be meted to his family if the matter is probed by
Unnao: Hitting out at Uttar Pradesh Minister Mohd Azam Khan, who has adviced Yogi Adityanath to offer namaz, controversial BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj yesterday dared the senior SP leader to say 'Jai Shri Ram'."Azam is
New Delhi : Reacting on the recent comments by BJP MP Yogi Adityanath on Yoga,UP minister Azam Khan on Thursday said that the saffron leader should "offer namaz to set his mind on the right track". Although
New Delhi: BJP MP from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath today sparked off a new controversy over different views on practice of 'Surya Namaskar' at the first International Yoga Day celebrations on June 21."Whoever thinks Sun is
Balrampur (Uttar Pradesh): Terming the newly formed Janata Parivar a front of "political opportunism", BJP MP Yogi Adityanath today said it was only a "parivar" of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD supremo
New Delhi: Congress and Samajwadi Party today attacked BJP MP Yogi Adityanath for his remarks seeking barring of non-Hindus in Har Ki Pauri in Haridwar and questioned the “silence” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over
Haridwar: Stoking another controversy, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath today called for barring non-Hindus in Har Ki Pauri, a famous ghat along the banks of the Ganga in the city.“Non-Hindus should be prohibited from visiting Hari
New Delhi: Already in the eye of a raging controversy over the ‘Ghar Wapsi' programme, fiery Hindutva mascot and BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has now launched a campaign for declaring cow as ‘Rashtra Mata', claiming
Aligarh: Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath has come up with a movement to make cow, a ‘rashtra mata'- mother of nation, through his Aligarh branch outfit Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV).The movement having started over mobile phones
Hubballi: Firebrand Bharatiya Janata Party MP Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said Muslims are safer in India than anywhere else in the world and the majority community is liberal by nature."Hindus are liberal in nature and
Rohtak: Firebrand BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has said VHP's ‘Ghar Vapasi' programme will continue unless conversions are banned and that India's problem was “not poverty” but “vote bank politics fuelled by jihadi fervour”.“Conversions spoil communal
Gorakhpur (UP): Fiery BJP MP Yogi Adityanath today sharply reacted to Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi's recent remark, and said every child born in Hindustan, that is India, is a Hindu.Owaisi had
Ballia: BJP MP Yogi Aditynath, who has justified religious conversions, today said that it is a social issue and should not be associated with the Narendra Modi government.“Conversion is a social issue and it has
The sudden cancellation by the saffron hotheads of the religious re-conversion programmes to welcome the minorities into the Hindu fold suggests that Narendra Modi has finally decided that enough is enough.However, he may have left
Sant Kabir Nagar (UP): Accusing BJP of being double-faced, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said that while the party was talking about going to Mars, its people were raking up issues like “love jihad” and
New Delhi: Notwithstanding controversy over the conversion issue, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath today justified such programmes saying it is an ongoing process and will continue to happen.The Gorakhpur MP also batted for a strong anti-conversion
Hajipur (Bihar): Amidst raging controversy over alleged conversion in Agra, firebrand BJP MP Yogi Adityanath today said that there was nothing wrong if people re-convert to Hinduism if they are doing it willingly.“There is nothing
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