Lucknow: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and who is popular as Hindutva poster boy of Saffron party Yogi Adityanath has been today elected as the next Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Gorakhpur Lok Sabha MP Yogi Adityanath was on Saturday named as the next Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in a meeting of the newly-elected BJP legislators here, party sources said.
Adityanath’s name was proposed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suresh Khanna and was supported by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu.
He is known for his firebrand Hindutva image, the 44-year-old BJP leader comes from the Rajput community and is the head of the Gorakhnath Mutt in Gorakhpur, which has millions of followers from eastern UP and neighbouring Nepal.
Yogi Adityanath will be the 21nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
He has been elected as the Lok Sabha MP from Gorakhpur uninterrupted from 1998.
A science graduate, Adityanath is popular for his fiery speeches among his supporters but has antagonised minorities by his speeches and statements like Love Jihad, Ghar Wapasi.
With this the suspense on who will lead India’s largest state got over today after the BJP picked Yogi Adityanath as the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister.
The decision was taken after a meeting at 4 PM at Lok Bhawan that saw central observers-Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and national general secretary Bhupendra Yadav, BJP vice-president Om Mathur, state party chief Keshav Prasad Maurya and other senior party leaders in full attendance.
Adityanath’s elevation can strengthen BJP’s ‘Hindutva’ establishment in the state, but may provide enough fodder to the opposition to attack the saffron party on lines of ‘divisive politics’.
