Yogi Adityanath (Life, Education, Religion and Politics)

As Yogi Adityanath is a Chief Minister of UP, he also takes care of several other ministries that are around 36 ministries including Home, Housing, Revenue, Food, and Civil Supplies, Food Security and drug administration, stamp and registry, Town and country planning department, Economics and statistics, Mines and Minerals, Flood control, vigilance, prison, general administration, secretariat administration, personnel, and appointment, information, institutional finance, planning, urban land, estate department, UP state reorganisation committee, administration reforms, programme implementation, Relief and Rehabilitation, national integration, Rent Control, infrastructure, coordination, language, external aided project, Public Service Management, Consumer protection, weights, and measures. In his second innings, UP CM Yogi Adityanath is emerging out of his previous image into a more robust and also inclusive administrator, doing politics of larger significance. There is one aspect of Yogi that has not changed in the five years and beyond. And that is his image of a saffron-clad Hindutva leader. Yogi does not want to change this. He does not need to be bigger through change. He needs to add to his cultivated image. And he is doing that. A state with 22 crore people and 80 Lok Sabha seats, is one of the very crucial political pieces in India's electoral puzzle. With a history of producing many Prime Ministers for the country, the State has given yet another prospect for the Prime Minister's office, in the post-Modi era in the form of Yogi Adityanath. You have in your hands the first definitive biography of a monk who has become the Chief Minister of the most populous state of India.

Prof. Ashok Kumar Rai is Head, Department of Law, K.S. Saket P.G. College, Ayodhya, Dean, Faculty of Law, Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Avadh University, Ayodhya (U.P). Prof. Rai has been teaching since two decades and he brings to the learning table a sense of self-growth and the never ending commitment. He is energetic and innovative faculty. He teaches Jurisprudence, International Law and Constitutional Law as a subject of specialization.

Prof. Rai is the author of various books related to United Nation Organization, International Organization, Principle of Judicial Review in India, Comparative Law and Antarrashtriya Vidhi Ke Samanya Siddhant, Legal Theory and Jurisprudence, Women Law in India, Principle of Environmental Law and Policy, Principle of Administration Law, A Study of the Legal and Constitutional History of India, Fundamentals of Constitutional Law of India, Law of Contract, Law of Specific Contracts, Principle of International Law, Lectures on Human Rights, Law & Social Transformation in India, The Nature of Judicial Process in India and Fundamentals of Major Constitution of the World etc. He has also authored more than Three Dozen Research Articles. Prof. Rai has an impeccable record from High school to Master Degree in Law. He qualified his U.G.C (N.E.T) examination in his first attempt and got U.G.C Merit scholarship. He topped in his first attempt at U.P Higher Education Commission, Prayagraj (Allahabad).

He completed his Graduation from Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur. Then he pursued his LL.B. and awarded University Gold Medal and Dr. R.B. Tiwari Gold Medal for his Law degree. After that he completed LL.M. from BHU Varanasi (UP). He completed his Doctorate of the Philosophy from Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Awadh University, Ayodhya, in the topic of "Concept of Capital Punishment". There are Eight Law Students registered under your Research Guidance. Prof. Rai has been awarded National "Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar Namit Award" in 2018 for his book related to International Organisations and "Mulayam Singh Yadav Best Teacher Award" in 2020. Prof. Rai has been awarded "U.P. Government Teacher Award" on 05 September, 2021 and you were honoured by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of Uttar Pradesh on 24 September, 2021 for your "Special Contribution in the 2020 Ayodhya Deepotsav". Prof. Rai has been awarded Vidhi Vyas Samman by the Faizabad Bar Association, Ayodhya on 26 November, 2021.

Presently, he is working as a Dean, Faculty of Law, Convener Board of Studies Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Awadh University, Ayodhya (U.P). Dr. Rai has been a member of the Executive Council and Academic Council and also Co-ordinator of LL.M. Course of Awadh University, Ayodhya. He has been working Law Officer, Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Awadh University, Ayodhya and R.T.I. Officer of K.S. Saket P.G. College, Ayodhya. He is also associated with number of NGOs working in the various fields in protecting the rights of weaker sections of the society. Long volume of his research studies are forthcoming.

Yogi Adityanath's real name is Ajay Singh Bisht. He was born on 5 June, 1972. He became the youngest member to be elected to the 12th Lok Sabha in 1998 at the age of 26. Let us have a look in detail at Yogi Adityanath's biography describing his early life, family, education, political journey, etc.

Yogi Adityanath will continue as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second term. His oath ceremony will take place on March 25, 2022 (Friday) at 4 PM at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. The ceremony is expected to be a grand affair and will witness the presence of top leaders of the party, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP president JP Nadda and also various ministers of BJP-ruled states.

Recently, in the UP State Assembly election, the BJP won 255 seats out of 403 assembly seats. The mega victory of the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh created history.

In 1991, the BJP gained a majority in Uttar Pradesh and then the feat was repeated on a bigger scale in the 2017 polls. The BJP emerged as the largest party.

Yogi Adityanath is also the mahant or head priest of the Gorakhnath Math which is a Hindu temple in Gorakhpur. It is a position held since the death of his spiritual father, Mahant Avaidyanath in September 2014.

Yogi Adityanath's early life, family, education, achievements, political journey, etc. are discussed below. He was born on 5 June 1972 at Panchur, Distt. Pauri Garhwal (Uttarakhand). He was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha at the age of 26 and became the youngest member. Read about Yogi Adityanath here.

He is a politician, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Mahant (Chief Priest) of the Gorakhnath Math, a Hindu temple in Gorakhpur. He is a founder of a youth organisation, the Hindu Yuva Vahini. Currently, he is a Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Around 1990, he joined the Ayodhya Ram temple movement and became the disciple of the head priest of Gorakhnath Math Mahant Avaidyanath. Subsequently, he got the name "Yogi Adityanath' and also succeeded Mahant Avaidyanath.

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