Yogi Adityanath

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Yogi Adityanath
Adityanath in 2023
21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 March 2017
GovernorRam Naik
Anandiben Patel (incumbent)
DeputyBrajesh Pathak
(2022–present)
Keshav Prasad Maurya
(2017–present)
Dinesh Sharma
(2017–2022)
Departments
  • Home and Confidential
  • Appointment and Personal
  • General Administration
  • Cabinet Affairs
  • Information and Public Relations
  • Housing
  • Revenue
  • Mining and Geology
  • Institutional Finance
  • Planning
  • Programme Implementation
  • Relief and Rehabilitation
  • Protocol
  • Sainik Welfare
  • Prantiya Raksha Dal
  • Civil Aviation
  • Law
  • Food Security and Drug Administration
  • Other departments not allotted to any minister
Preceded byAkhilesh Yadav
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 March 2022
Preceded byRadha Mohan Das Agarwal
ConstituencyGorakhpur Urban
Majority1,03,390
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
In office
18 September 2017 – 22 March 2022
Preceded byYashwant Singh
Succeeded byDaya Shankar Mishra
Constituencyelected by Legislative Assembly members
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
5 October 1998 – 21 September 2017
Preceded byMahant Avaidyanath
Succeeded byPraveen Kumar Nishad
ConstituencyGorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
Personal details
Born
Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht

(1972-06-05) 5 June 1972 (age 52)
Panchur, Uttar Pradesh, India (present-day Uttarakhand)
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Residence5, Kalidas Marg, Lucknow
Alma materHemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (BSc, Mathematics)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • monk
Cabinet
Website
  • Official Website
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  • UP CM official
Personal
ReligionHinduism
DenominationShaivism
SchoolYoga
LineageGuru Gorakhnath
SectNath Sampradaya
Organization
TempleGorakhnath Math
Religious career
GuruMahant Avaidyanath
Period in office2014–present
PredecessorMahant Avaidyanath
Ordination12 September 2014
PostMahant

Yogi Adityanath (born Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht; 5 June 1972)[a] is an Indian Hindu monk and politician, belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party who has been serving as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh since 19 March 2017. He is the longest serving chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, being in office for 7 years,[6] and the only UP chief minister to have two consecutive terms.[7]

Previously, Adityanath served as a member of India's parliament for almost two decades, from 1998 until 2017. At the age of 26, he became one of the youngest Indian parliamentarians in 1998 and went on to win the next five consecutive terms from Gorakhpur (Lok Sabha Constituency).[1][8] In 2017, he moved from central to the UP state politics and was elected as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.[9] Initially, in 2017, he became a member of the UP legislative council. Subsequently, in 2022, he became a member of the state legislative assembly, having won the election from Gorakhpur Urban (assembly constituency).[10]

Adityanath is also the mahant (head priest) of the Gorakhnath Math, a Hindu monastery in Gorakhpur, a position he has held since September 2014 following the death of Mahant Avaidyanath, his spiritual Guru.[11][12][13] He founded Hindu Yuva Vahini, a now defunct[14] Hindu nationalist organisation.[15][16] He has an image of a Hindutva nationalist and a social conservative.[2][17][18][19] Adityanath was placed 5th in 2023 and 6th in 2024 on the list of India's most Powerful Personalities, conducted by The Indian Express.[20][21]

  1. ^ a b "Member Profile: 16th Lok Sabha". Lok Sabha. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
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  4. ^ Barry, Ellen; Raj, Suhasini (12 July 2017). "Firebrand Hindu Cleric Ascends India's Political Ladder". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2022. Adityanath, born Ajay Singh Bisht, found his vocation in college as an activist in the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right-wing Hindu organization.
  5. ^ "Who's the Hindu hardliner running India's most populous state?". BBC. Archived from the original on 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022. The son of a forest ranger, Yogi Adityanath was born in 1972 in Garhwal (which was then in Uttar Pradesh but is now in Uttarakhand state) and was named Ajay Singh Bisht.
  6. ^ "Yogi Adityanath Became the Longest Serving Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh". Drishti IAS. Archived from the original on 6 April 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  7. ^ "Yogi Adityanath now CM with longest unbroken tenure in UP". The Times of India. 1 March 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Archived from the original on 12 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  8. ^ "In Lok Sabha, Yogi Adityanath takes a dig at Rahul-Akhilesh partnership", The Times of India, 21 March 2017, archived from the original on 22 March 2017, retrieved 22 March 2017
  9. ^ Singh, Akhilesh (22 March 2017). "Yogi, Parrikar and Maurya to stay MPs till President polls in July". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 24 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  10. ^ "Yogi Adityanath news: UP CM Yogi Adityanath top stories, speech, photos & videos". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
  11. ^ Mukul, Sushim (22 June 2024). "Chief Minister Yogi, Gorakhnath and Ram Lalla- A history of 75 years". India Today. Archived from the original on 12 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  12. ^ Jha 2014, p. 110.
  13. ^ "Yogi Adityanath, Hindutva Firebrand, Is The New CM Of UP". Huffington Post India. 18 March 2017. Archived from the original on 22 March 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  14. ^ "State, regional, & district units of Hindu Yuva Vahini dissolved". The Indian Express. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  15. ^ Jha, Prashant (1 January 2014). Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal. Oxford University Press. p. 110. ISBN 9781849044592.
  16. ^ Violette Graff; Juliette Galonnier (20 August 2013). "Hindu-Muslim Communal Riots in India II (1986-2011)". Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence; Sciences Po.: 30, 31. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.692.6594.
  17. ^ Jha, Dhirendra K. (27 June 2017). "The fall and rise of India's Yogi Adityanath". www.aljazeera.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  18. ^ Wildman, Sarah (20 March 2017). "India's prime minister just selected an anti-Muslim firebrand to lead its largest state". Vox. Archived from the original on 13 April 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  19. ^ "Wag the dog: On Yogi Adityanath as UP CM". The Hindu. Editorial. 20 March 2017. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  20. ^ "IE 100 2023: Who are the top 10 most powerful Indians?". 31 March 2023.
  21. ^ "Most powerful Indian 2024". 29 February 2024.


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