Yogi Adityanath

Yogi Adityanath
योगी आदित्यनाथ
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Assumed office
19 March 2017
GovernorRam Naik
DeputyKeshav Prasad Maurya
Brijesh Pathak
Preceded byAkhilesh Yadav
Member of the India Parliament
for Gorakhpur
Assumed office
1998
Preceded byAvaidyanath
Personal details
Born
Ajay Singh Bisht

(1972-06-05) 5 June 1972 (age 54)
Panchur, Pauri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh (present day Uttarakhand)
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Alma materHemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University
OccupationPolitician
monk
Websitewww.yogiadityanath.in

Mahant Yogi Adityanath (birth name- Ajay Singh Bisht; 5th June 1972) is a Hindu monk and Indian politician who is the currently the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, India. He also became the first to hold the office for two consecutive terms and the state's longest-serving chief minister.

Sources

  1. 1 2 In The End, This Is What Worked In Yogi Adityanath's Favour, 18 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Shri Yogi Adityanath: Members bioprofile, Sixteenth Lok Sabha, retrieved 19 March 2017.
  3. ↑ Ellen Barry (18 March 2017), "Firebrand Hindu Cleric Yogi Adityanath Picked as Uttar Pradesh Minister", The New York Times
  4. ↑ "Yogi Adityanath is new Uttar Pradesh CM, will have two deputies". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  5. ↑ "Hindu firebrand Yogi Adityanath picked as Uttar Pradesh chief minister". BBC News. 18 March 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  6. ↑ "Yogi Adityanath is new Uttar Pradesh CM, will have two deputies". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2017-03-18.

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