Yogi Adityanath

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Mahant Yogi Adityanath ( Hindi योगी आदित्यनाथ Yogī Ādityanāth ; born as Ajay Singh Bisht ; born June 5, 1972 in Panchur, Pauri Garhwal District , Uttar Pradesh [now in Uttarakhand ], India) is a Hindu priest, Indian politician and since the 19th March 2017 the Chief Minister of the State of Uttar Pradesh.

biography

Yogi Adityanath was born under the name Ajay Singh Bisht in a village in Uttarakhand, which at that time was still part of the state of Uttar Pradesh. He comes from a Rajput family. He received his education on site and he then studied at the state-owned Garhwal University in Srinagar (Uttarakhand), where he obtained a Bachelor of Science ( B. Sc. ) Degree . After his studies he embarked on a religious-meditative career, became a student ( sannyasin ) in the Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur and took the name Yogi Adityanath . He is single.

Adityanath joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 1980s . In 1998 he was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in constituency 38-Gorakhpur . He was able to maintain the constituency for the BJP in the following elections in 1999 , 2004 , 2009 and 2014 . As a member of parliament, he worked on various committees. 1998–2000 he was a member of the parliamentary committee for food, supplies for the civilian population and distribution of public goods, from 2004 he was a member of the committees for state insurance and foreign affairs, in 2009 and from 2014 in the committee for transport, tourism and culture, and in 2015 in the committee for public companies, and from 2014 chairman of the committee for the salaries and expenses of MPs.

Ideological background, political views and activities

Adityanath did not receive his ideological training, as is usual with leaders of the BJP, through membership in the RSS , but through a more or less local Hindunationalist school and current in the area of Gorakhpur , which was through Digvijay Nath , the high priest ( Mahant ) of the Gorakhnath temple was established in the 1930s / 1940s. While Digvijay Nath was still politically active in the Hindu Mahasabha (HMS), his pupil and successor Avaidyanath later switched to the BJP after initial membership in the HMS (in 1989 he was even elected to the Lok Sabha for the HMS in constituency 38-Gorakhpur ) . For the BJP, Avaidyanath won constituency 38-Gorakhpur in the 1991 and 1996 elections . Avaidyanath became Yogi Adityanath's religious and political mentor. Yogi Adityanath has been Avaidyanath's designated successor as high priest of Gorakhnath Temple since 1994, and formally assumed this role with Avaidyanath's death in 2014.

After his first election to the Lok Sabha in 1998, Adityanath Hindu founded Yuva Vahini , a Hindu youth organization which in the following years was repeatedly accused of participating in violent communal riots. In 2007 Adityanath was briefly imprisoned for communal activities.

Central political issues of Yogi Adityanath are the classic themes of the Hindutva world view. At election rallies in 2014, he urged his Hindu audience to convert 100 Muslim women for every Hindu woman who converted to Islam. In 2015 he accused Mother Teresa of "conspiracy" with the aim of Christianizing India . He announced that he would enact strict laws in Uttar Pradesh against the slaughter of sacred cows . In February 2017, he announced that he would soon start building the Rama Temple in Ayodhya . Yogi Adityanath endorsed Presidential Decree 13769 " in defense of the nation from foreign terrorists entering the US " and stated that the same course of action was necessary to prevent terrorist activities in India.

The relationship between Yogi Adityanath and the BJP leadership has not always been free of tension. Before elections, there were repeated controversies over the selection of candidates in Purvanchal , the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, where Adityanath has the greatest influence. Before the 2007 parliamentary elections, Adityanath threatened to let his preferred candidates run under the banner of the Hindu Mahasabha if they were not considered by the BJP leadership. In the end, however, this did not take place.

After the 2017 parliamentary elections in Uttar Pradesh, which the BJP won across the board, there was almost two weeks of uncertainty in March 2017 about who would become the future Chief Minister. The BJP had fought its election campaign without declared top candidates, but to a certain extent in the management team. On March 18, 2017, a BJP party meeting decided that this office should be transferred to Yogi Adityanath. On March 19, 2017, Adityanath was sworn in as Chief Minister.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Sixteenth Lok Sabha: Members' Biographical Sketch (Alphabetical). Lok Sabha, accessed on March 18, 2017 (English, short biographies of Lok Sabha members).
  2. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on October 18, 2017 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  3. ↑ Christophe Jaffrelot : The other saffron. The Indian Express, October 6, 2014, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ What Happened in Mau. The South Asian, archived from the original on November 27, 2005 ; accessed on March 18, 2017 (English).
  5. ^ Shahira Naim: Vahini activists set train ablaze. Tribune News Service, archived from the original on February 3, 2007 ; accessed on March 18, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ 10 facts to know about Yogi Adityanath, the next CM of Uttar Pradesh. India TV News, March 18, 2017, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Manmohan Rai: BJP MP Yogi Adityanath accuses Mother Teresa of religious conversion. The Economic Times, June 21, 2016, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  8. ^ Will conduct a surgical strike in UP against cow slaughterers, rioters: Yogi. February 13, 2017, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Ram temple construction in Ayodhya to start 'soon': Yogi Adityanath. The Times of India, February 5, 2017, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  10. ↑ BJP's Yogi Adityanath Praises Trump Ban, Compares Western UP To Kashmir. NDTV, January 31, 2017, accessed November 19, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Atiq Khan: Yogi's revolt may hit BJP. The Hindu, March 28, 2007, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  12. ^ Yogi Adityanath to be next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. The Times of India, March 18, 2017, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Highlights: Yogi Adityanath Sworn In As The New Chief Minister Of Uttar Pradesh. NDTV, March 19, 2017, accessed on March 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Adityanath, yogi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES योगी आदित्यनाथ (Hindi)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Panchur, Pauri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh, now Uttarakhand, India