Yogi Adityanath

Yogi Adityanath is an Indian politician and Hindu monk who has been serving as Uttar
Pradesh's Chief Minister since 19 March 2017. He was appointed to the position on
March 26 after the Bhartiya Janta party won the state assembly election.

Education
He got his education from his neighbourhood school in Gaja, Tehri, in 1977 and
completed his studies there in 1987; he gained a Class X diploma and an
intermediate diploma from Rishikesh's Sri Bharat Mandir Inter College in 1989.

In 1990, while still in college, he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi

Parishad. In 1992, he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics. However, his
attempts to find a scientific job in Gorakhpur were unsuccessful because Yogi
Adityanath's graduation certificate was stolen while he was staying in Kotdwar. After
that, Adityanath applied for a postgraduate programme in a scientific field at an
institute in Rishikesh, but due to the ongoing Ayodhya movement, in which he was
actively involved, he encountered several difficulties being accepted, which led him
to turn his focus to the opposition.

EARLY LIFE
Yogi Adityanath's real name is Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht. He was  born on June
5th, 1972, in the Pauri Garhwal hamlet in Uttarakhand. Anand Singh Bisht, his father,
worked as a forest ranger. He joined the Ayodhya Ram temple movement and
accepted Mahant Avaidyanath as his mentor. After that got the nickname "Yogi
Adityanath" and replaced Mahant Avaidyanath, the movement's major figure for the
Ram temple at the time.
Mahant Avaidyanath named Yogi Adityanath as his heir in 1994, and then he became
Gorakhnath Math's head priest.  He was selected to lead Gorakhnath Math. At that
time, he was responsible for supervising the education system, healthcare centres,
and charitable trust of Gorakhnath.

Adityanath was moved to the role of Gorakhnath Math Mahant soon after
Avaidyantah expired on September 12, 2014. He was named Peethadhishwar (Head
Seer) of the Math according to the rituals of Nath sect

Relations with the BJP

Adityanath has had a contentious relationship with the BJP, criticising its weak
Hindutva ideology. He revolted by choosing candidates against the BJP's official
candidates. The most famous case was Radha Mohan Das Agarwal's election on a
Hindu Mahasabha ticket in 2002, in which the Bhartiya Janta party lost that seat.

In 2006 during the BJP National Executive Meeting in Lucknow, Adityanath organised
a three-day Virat Hindu Mahasammelan in Gorakhpur. Despite frequent revolts and
controversy, L. K. Advani, RSS leader and VHP chairman, have all paid him visits.

In 2010, he disobeyed party policy on women's reservation in Parliament. Adityanath

was a key BJP campaigner in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. He was one
of numerous BJP MPs that disobeyed party rules on the women's reservation bill. In
2017, he was a prominent BJP campaigner in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections
which helped the Bhartiya Janta party to win the assembly elections,

He was elected as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 2017. He immediately outlawed

the use of cigarettes, pan, and gutka in state government buildings. In the state, he
also launched anti-Romeo squads. Additionally, more than 100 fraudulent police
officers were dismissed.