Aditya Nath
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| Born | 5 June 1972 Garhwal, Uttarakhand |
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| Residence | Gorakhpur | |
| Constituency | Gorakhpur | |
| Political party | BJP | |
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Adityanath Yogi (born 5 June 1972) is an Indian religious leader and politician. He is the Member of Parliament from Gorakhpur (Lok Sabha Constituency) since 1998, having been most recently re-elected in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on the BJP ticket.[1]
He is the intended successor of Avedyanath. the current mahant or head priest of the Gorakhnath Mutt, a Hindu temple in Gorakhpur. Yogi Adityanath is also the founder of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, a radical group seeking to provide a more rightist Hindu platform, compared to the mainstream Bharatiya Janata Party to which he belongs.
Yogi Adityanath has an extremist Hindu image, and is viewed by many as a successor to the hardliner Gujarat politician Narendra Modi.[2] For several years, Adityanath has been active in converting other religious groups (particularly the low-caste converts of Christianity) back into the folds of Hinduism. In 2005, a large group of 1800 people were converted in the town of Etah in UP.[3] He is also active in several go rakShA (cow protection) organizations.
On December 22-24 2006, Adityanath organized a three day Virat Hindu Mahasammelan at Gorakhpur, during the same period when the BJP was holding its National Executive Meet in Lucknow in the same state. A few weeks later, on the eve of the Muharram celebrations planned for 30 January 2007, communal tensions increased in Gorakhpur. On January 28, a Hindu youth was killed, allegedly for firing on a Muslim religious procession.[4] Curfew was imposed by the district administration, but Yogi Adityanath attempted to break the curfew and hold a meeting at the youth's residence on 30 January He was arrested on the charge of fomenting communalism, along with 130 others. This led to widespread unrest in Gorakhpur. Several coaches of a train were burnt by HYV activists on January 30, 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ Official biography from Parliament of India records
- ^ Hindutvaisation of a Gorakhnath Mutt by Subhash Gatade www.sacw.net October 7, 2004
- ^ Yogi Adityanath and conversions to Hinduism, Vijay Upadhyay, The Pioneer, October 3, 2005
- ^ Violence hits parts of eastern UP, curfew in Gorakhpur area, Deepak Gidwani DNA Mumbai, January 29, 2007
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