Yogi Adityanath

Yogi Adityanath
Yogi Adityanath
	Adityanath in 2023
21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 19 March 2017
Governor	Ram Naik; Anandiben Patel (Incumbent)
Deputy	Brajesh Pathak; (2022–present); Keshav Prasad Maurya; (2017–present); Dinesh Sharma; (2017–2022)
Departments	Home and Confidential; Appointment and Personal; General Administration; Cabinet Affairs; Information and Public Relations; Housing; Revenue; Mining and Geology; Institutional Finance; Planning; Programme Implementation; Relief and Rehabilitation; Protocol; Sainik Welfare; Prantiya Raksha Dal; Civil Aviation; Law; Food Security and Drug Administration; Other departments not allotted to any minister;
Preceded by	Akhilesh Yadav
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 March 2022
Preceded by	Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
Constituency	Gorakhpur Urban
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
	In office; 18 September 2017 – 22 March 2022
Constituency	Elected by Members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
	In office; 5 October 1998 – 21 September 2017
Preceded by	Mahant Avaidyanath
Succeeded by	Praveen Kumar Nishad
Constituency	Gorakhpur
Personal details
Born	Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht; 5 June 1972; Panchur, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Residence(s)	5, Kalidas Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Alma mater	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (BSc)
Occupation	Politician; monk;
Cabinet	Yogi Adityanath I; Yogi Adityanath II;
Website	www.yogiadityanath.in
Personal
Religion	Hinduism
Denomination	Shaivism
School	Yoga
Lineage	Guru Gorakhnath
Sect	Nath Sampradaya
Temple	Gorakhnath Math
Religious career
Guru	Mahant Avaidyanath
Period in office	2014–present
Predecessor	Mahant Avaidyanath
Ordination	12 September 2014
Post	Mahant

Yogi Adityanath (born Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht; 5 June 1972) is an Indian Hindu monk and politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party who has been serving as the 21st and current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh since 19 March 2017. He is the longest serving Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, who is currently running his tenure for over six years, surpassing Sampurnanand. He has represented Gorakhpur Urban Assembly constituency in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly since 2022 and was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council from 2017 to 2022. He is a former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency, Uttar Pradesh from 1998 to 2017 before he resigned to become the Chief Minister. He resigned from the legislative council after being elected to the legislative assembly.

Adityanath is also the mahant (head priest) of the Gorakhnath Math, a Hindu monastery in Gorakhpur, a position he has held since September 2014 following the death of Mahant Avaidyanath, his spiritual "father". He is the founder of Hindu Yuva Vahini, a Hindu nationalist organisation. He has an image of a Hindutva nationalist and a social conservative.

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