Yogi Adityanath

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	Yogi Adityanath is an Indian politician and a Hindu monk who is serving as the 21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh since March 2017. He is the longest-serving CM of Uttar Pradesh (for over six years). He is a former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Gorakhpur constituency, Uttar Pradesh, for five consecutive terms from 1998 to 2017 before he became the UP CM.</div>
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	He is a member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).</div>
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	Adityanath became the CM of Uttar Pradesh on March 26, 2017 after the BJP won the 2017 State Assembly elections when he was a campaigner.</div>
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	Adityanath is also the head priest of the Gorakhnath Math, a Hindu monastery in Gorakhpur since September 2014. He is also the founder of Hindu Yuva Vahini, a Hindu nationalist organisation.</div>

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	<strong>Early life and education</strong></div>
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	Yogi Adityanath was born as Ajay Singh Bisht on June 5, 1972 in Pauri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand) in a Rajput family. He obtained an intermediate diploma degree from Rishikesh&#39;s Sri Bharat Mandir Inter College in 1989 and later earned a bachelor&#39;s degree in Mathematics from the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in Uttarakhand. In 1990, he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). When he was a student, he actively participated in several social movements and activities. Around 1990s, he left his home to join the Ayodhya Ram temple movement and in 1994 , he became a disciple of Mahant Avaidyanath, the chief of the Gorakhnath Math.</div>
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	At the age of 26, Adityanath was the youngest member of the 12th Lok Sabha and was elected to the Parliament from Gorakhpur for five consecutive terms.</div>

Yogi Adityanath is an Indian politician and a Hindu monk who is serving as the 21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh since March 2017. He is the longest-serving CM of Uttar Pradesh (for over six years).

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