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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On December 3, Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a local youth, Sumit, were killed in violence over an alleged cow slaughter incident in the city.
Sources in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that CM Yogi invited PM Modi for the 'Ardh-Kumbh' to be held in Allahabad beginning next month.
The Shiv Sena said while Adityanath sought to rename Hyderabad, he had "failed to address the basic issues in his state".
The video, in which Raj chants 'Jai Shree Ram' and introduces himself as the Bulandshahr district convenor of the Bajrang Dal, has been played by several local news channels.
A thorough investigation into the incident was ordered by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday.
Police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh who had probed the Akhlaq lynching and a 20-year-old man Sumit died of gunshot wounds when a mob went on rampage over alleged cow slaughter on Monday.
Earlier on Sunday, speaking at an election rally of the BJP at Tandur, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister had said if his party comes to power in the state, Owaisi will flee the way Nizam had to flee Hyderabad.
Addressing a poll rally in Telangana's Sangareddy, CM Adityanath said; "if anyone is creating obstruction in the way of construction of a grand temple in the birthplace of Lord Ram, it's Congress".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing an election rally in Hyderabad on Monday.
Asking the electorate to vote in the name of Bajrangbali, Yogi Adityanath said that Lord Hanuman was a tribal man and belonged to the deprived class.
Addressing a rally in Badnawar assembly constituency in Dhar district, Adityanath held the Congress responsible for problems like "terrorism and naxalism" in the country.
Several farmers expressed their happiness and gathered around Adityanath on his visit, said the district magistrate.
The BJP's campaign is seen as a counter to the Samajwadi Party's proposed bicycle rallies in December in which the SP chief, Akhilesh Yadav, will himself ride the vehicle.
Addressing a campaign rally for the second phase of Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, Adityanath said, "Italy se ayatit saudagar" (agents imported from Italy), undertook "anti-national" activities like conversion of tribals in the state.
The decision came a day after the Allahabad High Court asked the Centre and the state government to file counter affidavits within a week on a petition challenging the decision to rename Allahabad as Prayagraj.
In August this year, the UP government had sent a request to the Centre to rename the airports in Agra, Bareilly and Kanpur.
The demand to ban the sale of liquor and meat in the district was made by the local seers.
Yogi Adityanath alleged that Chhattisgarh remained “poor, backward and a BIMARU state” remained a BIMARU state” during the Congress rule despite having extensive mineral deposits and forest wealth.
Addressing a gathering on the occasion, Yogi Adityanath announced the setting up of an airport in Ayodhya to be named after Lord Ram, a medical college to be named after Lord Ram's father King Dashrath.
The news of building lord's Ram 151 metre statue had been coming for a while but the CM confirmed it on Wednesday. The land for the construction has not been finalised as yet.
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