Yogi Adityanath (born June 5, 1972, as Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht) As Uttar Pradesh’s 21st and current chief minister, is an Indian Hindu monk and politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party, having taken office on March 19, 2017. He has been the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the longest period of time—more than six years—eclipsing Sampurnanand in this regard. He was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council from 2017 to 2022 and has been the representative for the Gorakhpur Urban Assembly constituency in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly since 2022. From 1998 to 2017, he served as the Lok Sabha representative for the Uttar Pradesh constituency of Gorakhpur. He then resigned in order to take on the role of Chief Minister. After being elected, he left the Legislative Council.
Yogi Adityanath Info
| Born | 5 June 1972 (age 51 years), Pauri Garhwal |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Education | Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University |
| Siblings | Mahendra Singh Bisht, Shashi Singh, Shailendra Mohan, Manvendra Mohan |
| Height | 1.63 m |
| Office | Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh since 2017 |
| Organization founded | Hindu Yuva Vahini |
| Nick Name | Yogi |
| Birthplace | Panchur, Pauri Garhwal Distt., Uttar Pradesh (present-day Uttarakhand), India |
| Hometown | Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Highschool | Primary School, Pauri, Uttarakhand |
| College Name | Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in Uttarakhand |
| parents | Father name: late Anand Singh Bisht Mother name: Savitri Devi |
| Brother | Mahendra singh bisht (elder) Shailendra mohan |
| Sister | hashi devi (elder) Pushpa devi Kaushalya devi |
In addition, Adityanath serves as the mahant (Head Priest) of the Hindu monastery Gorakhnath Math in Gorakhpur. He has held this role since September 2014, when his spiritual “father,” Mahant Avaidyanath, passed away. In addition, he founded the Hindu nationalist organization Hindu Yuva Vahini. He is perceived as a social conservative and a Hindutva nationalist.
Early life and Education
On June 5, 1972, Yogi Adityanath was born into a Rajput family in the village of Panchur, Pauri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand). His birth certificate read Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht. Anand Singh Bisht, his late father, worked as a forest ranger. Of four brothers and three sisters, he was the second child born in the family. In Uttarakhand, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University.
Sometime in the 1990s, he moved out of his house to join the Ayodhya Ram temple campaign. He also started following Mahant Avaidyanath, the leader of the Gorakhnath Math, during the same period. At that time, the movement for the Ayodhya Ram temple was headed by Mahant Avaidyanath. Adityanath established a school in his home village in 1998 and has been visiting it frequently since being headquartered in Gorakhpur following his initiation.
Following Avaidyanath’s passing on September 12, 2014, Adityanath was elevated to the position of Mahant, or high priest, inside the Gorakhnath Math. Two days later, in the midst of customary Nath sect rites, he was appointed Peethadhishwar (Head Seer) of the Math.
Early political Career
Yogi Adityanath is a member of a certain Hindutva political lineage in Uttar Pradesh that dates back to Mahant Digvijay Nath, who oversaw the idol-installation at the Ayodhya Babri Masjid on December 22, 1949. Both Digvijay Nath and Avaidyanath, his successor, were elected to the Parliament on the Hindu Mahasabha’s ticket. The two threads of Hindu nationalism came together in the 1980s when the BJP and the Sangh Parivar joined the Ayodhya agitation. Even when Avaidyanath joined the BJP in 1991, he remained quite autonomous. Adityanath was elected to the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of the Indian Parliament, four years after he was named Avaidyanath’s successor.
Adityanath founded his own youth organization, Hindu Yuva Vahini, following his first election victory. This organization gained notoriety for its initiatives in eastern Uttar Pradesh and played a significant role in the rapid ascent of Adityanath. Tensions over election ticket distribution have repeatedly arisen between Adityanath and the BJP leadership. But since Adityanath has been a prominent campaigner for the BJP, the party has managed to keep the tensions from rising.
He made the connections between Leftist parties in India and Nepali Maoists a major campaign issue in 2006 and urged Madhesi leaders to reject Maoism in Nepal. While traveling to Azamgarh for an anti-terrorism demonstration in 2008, there were reports of an attack on his convoy. At least six people were hurt in the incident, and one person died.
Adityanath and other BJP officials had assembled in January 2007 to grieve the loss of a man killed in acts of religious violence. After that, the authorities detained him and his allies and put them in Gorkhapur jail, accusing them of disrupting the peace and disobeying prohibitions. His apprehension sparked additional turmoil, during which a number of coaches on the Mumbai-Gorakhpur Godan Express were set on fire by supposedly indignant Hindu Yuva Vahini activists. The local police head and the district magistrate were changed and transferred the day following the arrest.
Member of Parliament
Adityanath was the youngest member of the 12th Lok Sabha when he was elected at the age of 26. He was elected to the Gorakhpur Parliament five times in a row (in the elections of 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014).
With a 77% attendance rate in the 16th Lok Sabha, Adityanath has asked 284 questions, taken part in 56 discussions, and introduced three private member bills.
Relations with the BJP
For over ten years, Adityanath and the BJP have had tense relations. He frequently mocked and disparaged the BJP, pointing out that it was diluting the Hindutva doctrine. With the backing of the Hindu Yuva Vahini and the Gorakhnath Math, he had built his own autonomous power base in Eastern Uttar Pradesh and felt confident enough to dictate terms to the BJP. He rebelled by fielding candidates to challenge the BJP’s official slate after feeling that his voice was not being heard. The most well-known instance occurred when Gorakhpur native Radha Mohan Das Agarwal was fielded on a Hindu Mahasabha ticket in 2002 and easily defeated BJP Cabinet Minister Shiv Pratap Shukla. Adityanath threatened to run 70 candidates in the 2007 state assembly election against the candidates from the BJP. But in the end, he came to a compromise. There were rumors that Adityanath ran an anti-BJP campaign during the 2009 Parliamentary elections, which resulted in their defeat.
Even with his sporadic outbursts, BJP leaders and the RSS have managed to maintain Yogi Adityanath’s good humor. He was visited in Gorakhpur by the deputy prime minister L. K. Advani, the head of the RSS Rajendra Singh, and the head of the VHP Ashok Singhal. Adityanath arranged a three-day Virat Hindu Mahasammelan in Gorakhpur from December 22–24, 2006, coinciding with the BJP National Executive Meet in Lucknow. Numerous leaders from the RSS and VHP attended the Mahasammelan despite the controversy, and the group pledged to continue pursuing Hindutva objectives in spite of the BJP’s purported “abandonment” of them.
Adityanath was one of numerous BJP Members of Parliament that disobeyed the party whip regarding the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Parliament in March 2010.
He worked as a campaigner for Pratap Puriji Maharaj, the BJP candidate, in the 2018 Rajasthan state assembly election.
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
During the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Adityanath was a well-known BJP campaigner. On March 18, 2017, the state administration named him Chief Minister; following the BJP’s victory in the assembly elections, he took the oath of office the following day.
Ministry allocation
Adityanath retained direct control over approximately thirty-six ministries after taking office as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. These ministries included the departments of Home, Housing, Town and Country Planning, Revenue, Food and Civil Supplies, Food Security and Drug Administration, Economics and Statistics, Mines and Minerals, Flood Control, General Administration, Secretariat Administration, Vigilance, Personnel and Appointments, Information, Institutional Finance, Planning, Estate Department, Urban Land, UP State Reorganization Committee, Administration Reforms, Program Implementation, National integration, Infrastructure, Coordination, Language, External Aided project, Relief and Rehabilitation, Public Service Management, Rent Control, Consumer protection, and Weights and measures, among others.
During his inaugural cabinet meeting on April 4, 2017, it was decided to cancel loans totaling ₹363.59 billion (US$4.6 billion) to about 87 lakh (8,700,000) small and marginal farmers in Uttar Pradesh. His government singled out Muslim religious schools and demanded that they produce video proof that their pupils had performed the Indian national song during the country’s 2017 Independence Day celebrations.
Law and Order
Adityanath gave the order to create anti-“romeo” quasi-vigilante squads. He put an end to the smuggling of cows and postponed the results of the UPPSC civil service exam, exams, and interviews till further notice. He made officials promise to donate 100 hours annually to the Swachh Bharat Mission and outlawed the vices of tobacco, paan, and gutka in all state government offices. The Uttar Pradesh police suspended over a hundred “black sheep” officers.
Chief Minister Adityanath has mandated the closure of numerous slaughterhouses since 2017. The tanneries that obtained raw leather from the slaughterhouses suffered as a direct result. The closure of several tanneries was also mandated. In 2017, the value of the tannery industry was predicted to reach 50,0000 crore Rupees. More than 10 lakh people were employed by the sector, either directly or indirectly. Out of the more than 400 tanneries that were operating in Jajamau, Kanpur, CM Adityanath has closed almost 200 of them since 2018 through executive orders.
During the initial ten months of his first tenure, he interacted with the police four times per day. The state administration received a notice from the National Human Rights Commission, and the Uttar Pradesh government was also served with a warning and notice by a three-judge panel of the Indian Supreme Court.
He erected hoardings containing the names, images, and addresses of protestors following the Uttar Pradesh demonstrations against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The posters weren’t taken down until the High Court’s ruling, which deemed his government’s actions “shameless” and a “unwarranted interference in privacy”.
Yogi Adityanath: Special Interests
He has a special interest in yoga and spirituality. He promotes campaigning Cow-protection. He also runs Rashtra Raksha Abhiyan for Social and National Security, Gardening, religious Discourses, Bhajans, and Touring Religious Spots.
Yogi Adityanath: Famous Sayings by him
- 1. I am a Hindu, and I have pride in that.
- 2. If you want to see law and order, then come to Uttar Pradesh.
- 3. Religion is a comprehensive concept. According to our learned people, our scholars, to pave the path for public welfare in worldly life and to provide spiritual uplift is part of religion. I think a yogi can do both things quite easily. And I manage to balance both worldly and spiritual concerns.
- 4. People had lost trust in governance. Getting back that trust, instilling a sense of hope and belief that good governance and development would be back on track, is my biggest achievement.
- 5. The real Hindu vision is that nobody will be discriminated against or favoured. Everyone is equal.
- 6. Yogi Adityanath is a hard worker and dedicated personality towards work.
Controversies
When Adityanath opposed the Women’s Reservation Bill in 2010, she said that reservations had little bearing on women’s domestic duties, such as child care. He went on to say that women become demons and males become gods if they acquire feminine characteristics.
An undated video that appeared on YouTube in August 2014 purports to show Adityanath discussing the religious conversions brought about by interfaith marriages at a public lecture in Azamgarh. He is quoted as saying, “If they take one Hindu girl, we will take 100 Muslim girls.” The assembled mob yells “kill” as he pauses and says, “If they kill one Hindu, there will be 100 that we” in the same footage.
If given the chance, we will install statues of Goddess Gauri, Ganesh, and Nandi” — Hindu deities — “in every mosque,” Adityanath said in February 2015 during a speech at the Vishva Hindu Parishad’s “Virat Hindu Sammelan.
When discussing Surya Namaskara and yoga in June 2015, Adityanath stated that people who wish to shun yoga are free to leave Hindustan. He “requested” that anyone who identify with the Sun God as communists “drown themselves in the sea” or spend the rest of their lives in a gloomy place.
Adityanath said that Shah Rukh Khan and Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed were speaking the same “language” during the late-2015 media controversy over intolerance.He stated in public in February 2020 that Muslims who opted to remain in India. Partitioned the country after gaining independence from Britain, doing it “no favors.” When there were protests in Shaheen Bagh in 2020, he declared, “If they won’t understand words, they’ll understand bullets. He was recorded swearing at an ANI reporter in June 2021. ANI withdrew the video and declined to comment on the matter. Although multiple fact-checks revealed that the video was not changed, his media strategist insisted that it was doctored.
Yogi Adityanath’s Book
- Yaugik Shatkarm’,
- ‘Hathayog Swaroop evam Sadhna’,
- ‘Hindu Rashtra Nepal
- Atit, Vartmaan evam Bhavisya’,
- ‘Rajyog: Swaroop evam Sadhana’
Facts about Yogi Adityanath
- Yogi left his home at the age of 21. He first met Mahant Avaidyanath of the Goraknath Temple in Rishikesh when he was 22 years old and enrolled with him as a student before moving to Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.Uttar Pradesh.
- He participated in the Ayodhya movement in the 1990s.
- Yogi’s political career began in 1996 when he was given the responsibility of running Mahant Avaidyanath’s election campaign.
- He was chosen to serve in the 12th Lok Sabha in 1998. He represented the same seat five times while serving as the youngest MP at the time.
- Yogi won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections by a margin of 1,42,309 votes. Adityanath Yogi is a well-liked politician in his district.
- Yogi is very popular for his mission to convert other religious groups to Hinduism.
- Yogi was the successor of late Mahant Avaidyanath, who was the President of Hindu Maha Sabha and a Mahant of GorakhNath math
- Yogi is also famous for his Hindutva agenda. He put this plan at the forefront of his election campaign.
- Yogi Adityanath, also known as Yogi, is the founder of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, a youth people’s social, spiritual, and nationalist organisation. It is very popular amongst Hindus of Eastern Uttar Pradesh.
- Adityanath was one of numerous BJP MPs who disobeyed the party line on the women’s reservation bill in March 2010.
- With his controversial statements throughout the years, he has become the fiery Hindu face of the BJP.
- He has never had a strong relationship with the Bhartiya Janata Party in spite of his popularity inside the party. For ten years, he has had a tense relationship with the party. In the 2007 UP Elections, BJP and Yogi conflicted.
- Yogi is an animal lover, and he also runs many goshalas
- He was appointed the 21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on March 19, 2017.
- Many goshalas are supervised by Yogi, who also loves animals.
- He made his maiden trip as Chief Minister to his home hamlet of Puncher in the Pauri district on May 3, 2022.
- He even missed his father’s funeral on 21 April 2020 to ensure the enforcement of the COVID-induced lockdown. He shared a photo of himself holding his mother’s feet after visiting his hometown.
- Reportedly, after spending the night in his village, Adityanath attended the hair tonsure ceremony of his nephew the next day.
- He was given the responsibility of running Mahant Avaidyanath’s election campaign in 1996.
- He was chosen to represent Gorakhpur as an MP in the Lok Sabha in 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014. In 1998, he was elected as the youngest MP (Gorakhpur) to the 12th Lok Sabha at the age of 26.
- He served in divisions including the Committee on Food between 1998 and 1999.
- He got re-elected to the 13th Lok Sabha for re-election in 1999-2000, serving in the Committee on Food, Civil Services, and Public Distribution: Member of the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Consultative Committee
- He was re-elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004 for a third term, serving on the Council on Government Pledges, the Council on External Affairs, and the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Advisory Council.
- Adityanath was re-elected again from the Gorakhpur seat to the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014 for a fifth term. On March 19, 2017, he was appointed the 21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He prevailed in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly vote in 2022 by Gorakhpur by more than 73 thousand votes
- He took the oath of office on March 25, 2022, becoming the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh to serve a second consecutive term after serving the entire five years of the State
Ayodhya’s Ram Temple Construction Will Be Beginning Of ‘Ram Rajya’ In Country: Yogi Adityanath
The construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya will be the beginning of ‘Ram Rajya’ in the country, where there will be no discrimination on the basis of caste and religion, claimed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday. He also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation of ‘Ram Rajya’, a term generally used from ancient times to denote the highest level of benevolent governance, during his nine-and-half-year-old rule at the Centre through schemes related to housin .. for the poor, toilets, tap water and health insurance.
CM Yogi says five additional airports in Uttar Pradesh and 100 chartered flights to land in Ayodhya on January 22.
Scindia said five new airports will be inaugurated in Uttar Pradesh in one month that will take the total number of airports in the state to 19. The first tri-weekly flight connecting Ahmedabad and Ayodhya was launched on Thursday, marking the expansion of the riverside U.P. town’s aviation infrastructure ahead of the much-awaited consecration ceremony of Ram temple.
Union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and other senior officials flagged off the flight virtually. The ceremonial inauguration took place amid great enthusiasm, with CM Adityanath personally receiving the boarding pass for the inaugural flight. Speaking on the occasion, the chief minister said that around 100 chartered planes carrying guests to attend the ‘pran pratishtha’ ceremony are expected to land at the Ayodhya airport on January 22. He noted that a large number of plane landings will also help check the potential of the newly-built airport.
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