Yogi Adityanath is elected as Uttar Pradesh CM. Adityanath’s selection has cemented the notion that the massive electoral victory for the saffron party was the result of Hindu consolidation and development hoax.
Adityanath will take oath as UP CM on Sunday at 2: 15 pm. The swearing-in ceremony will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah.
Adityanath, a five time BJP MP has been the star campaigner for BJP in the Assembly polls. During the campaign, Adityanath had openly asserted that the alleged exodus of Hindus from Kairana and love jihad were the important issues for the party.
Born as Ajay Singh Bisht, the 44-year-old is known to exercise considerable clout in east-UP districts, including Gorakhpur.
He is the head priest of the Gorakhnath Mutt, a position he took over after the death of his father in September 2014.
He began his political career quite early in his life and was the youngest MP in the 12th Lok Sabha at the ripe age of 26.
In 2002, he went on to find the Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV), which has often been mired in controversies.
The organisation was charged by the police in the 2005 riots in Mau, its members were accused of inciting riots, murder, and arson and were arrested.
In 2007, Adityanath himself faced arrest and was booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code.
He was jailed along with his supporters for allegedly stoking communal tensions in Gorakhpur and breaking police curfew by venturing into a troubled area where clashes had broken out between Hindus and Muslims.
His arrest only led to further unrest as the HYV was accused of burning two coaches of the Mumbai bound Mumbai-Gorakhpur Godan Express in retaliation.
Last year, the HYV had demanded that the BJP name Adityanath as its chief ministerial face for the 2017 assembly polls.
However, Aditynath’s name was nowhere in the CM race until this week.
Here are the top 5 most controversial statements of Adityanath:
1) On Minorities: “There have been 450 riots cases in West UP in two-and-a-half years of Samajwadi Party rule because the population of a particular community is rising manifold. Why are there no riots in Eastern UP? You can easily understand. In places where there are 10-20% minority population, stray communal incidents take place. Where there are 20-35% of them, serious communal riots take place and where they are more than 35%, there is no place for non-Muslims.”
2) On Kairana ‘Exodus’: “Yogi is not talking about today, Yogi is talking about future. Exodus is a very big issue for us…BJP will not let western Uttar Pradesh turn into another Kashmir.”
3) On Mother Teresa: “Mother Teresa was part of the conspiracy to Christianize India. Hindus were converted in the name of doing service and then converted
5) On Yoga: “Lord Shankar was the biggest Yogi who started Yoga. Mahadev lives in every particle of this country. So those who want to avoid Yoga and Lord Shankar can leave Hindustan.
6) On Shah Rukh Khan: “Shah Rukh Khan should remember that if people would boycott his films, he would also have to wander in the streets like a normal Muslim… These people are speaking in the language of terrorists. I think there is no difference between the language of Shah Rukh Khan and Hafiz Saeed.”
