After the second time success of Yogi Adityanath in the UP election in March this year making him the Chief Minister again, his stature in the BJP has fructified as the second most powerful leader of the party.
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In 1993, a 21-year-old boy from Pauri Garhwal walks out of the house asking for a job. After this, he directly reaches Gorakhpur Dham of UP. Seeing the talent of this boy, Mahant Avaidyanath of Gorakhpur Dham gets very impressed with him.
Then after 1 year in 1994, this boy receives Guru Diksha from Mahant Avaidyanath. At the same time, the name of this boy is changed from Ajay Singh Bisht to Yogi Adityanath.
One day in 1998, Mahant Avaidyanath also declares him as the Math and political successor. Yogi Adityanath contested and won the Lok Sabha elections from Gorakhpur in 1998 itself.
By winning this election, at the age of 26, Yogi Adityanath comes to Delhi as the youngest MP. Since then, till 2014, he became an MP five times.
Then in 2017 BJP made him the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and now Yogi Adityanath is going to become CM from UP for the second time in a row. In such a situation, in today's Thursday's Mega Story, read interesting anecdotes from Yogi Adityanath's childhood till now.
Rise of Yogi From 2017:
Yogi Adityanath, the Mahant of the historic 'Gorakshapeeth', who left home at the age of 18, is going to take over the command of Uttar Pradesh for the second time in a row.
The second swearing-in ceremony of the BJP government under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who created history by breaking a 37-year-old myth, will be held on March 25.
A grand ceremony will be organized at Atal Bihari Vajpayee International Cricket Ekana Stadium in Lucknow from 4 pm. Let us know the story of Yogi Adityanath becoming the Chief Minister for the first time in 2017
Yogi Adityanath was to go on a foreign tour around the day the results of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections were about to come.
However, on this occasion, his passport was returned by the Prime Minister's Office and Yogi Adityanath was told that the results of the elections are to come, so you must stay here. After this, it seemed that Yogi Adityanath, who was a five-time MP from Gorakhpur, could get some big responsibility.
Yogi Adityanath had put all his strength in the campaign for the 2017 assembly elections of Uttar Pradesh, but he was nowhere in the race for chief minister.
When the results of the Uttar Pradesh elections came, the BJP unilaterally got a thumping majority, but a big problem arose before the party that who should be made the Chief Minister in Uttar Pradesh.
In the political fizz of the state, many big names were running in the race for the Chief Minister. The then Home Minister Rajnath Singh was also in the race for Chief Minister.
However, this was constantly being denied by his side. The then state president Keshav Prasad Maurya was also named in the chief minister's race, who has made his mark as a big OBC leader.
Among the closest leaders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Manoj Sinha was also in the race for Chief Minister. It is also told that preparations had also started for taking oath as his Chief Minister.
Amidst all these speculations, on March 17, 2017, the high command in Delhi became active regarding the post of Chief Minister. At that time Yogi Adityanath had returned to Gorakhpur. Suddenly Yogi Adityanath is called from Delhi and he is called.
A chartered plane was sent for Yogi Adityanath and was called to Delhi. After coming to Delhi, Yogi Adityanath is instructed that you have to take oath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and you have to go to Lucknow immediately. Yogi Adityanath is elected as the leader of the legislature party in Lucknow and the swearing-in is also held on March 19.
Yogi Adityanath, who has made his mark as the firebrand leader of Hindutva in Uttar Pradesh, had no hope of becoming the chief minister.
Many political analysts also say that by making Yogi Adityanath the Chief Minister, the BJP kept the politics of Hindutva alive and at the same time tried to reduce the politics of caste in Uttar Pradesh.
In the year 2022, in the assembly elections, BJP contested the elections in Uttar Pradesh on the face of Yogi Adityanath and created history. BJP made Yogi Adityanath its candidate from Gorakhpur city. From there he won with huge votes. Now he is going to take oath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh again.
Seven siblings, father was a forest ranger.
Father Anand Singh Bisht was a forest ranger. Mother Savitri Devi is a housewife. The name of the yogi was Ajay Singh Bisht before adopting Sanyas. Ajay Singh has seven siblings. These include three sisters and four brothers.
Elder sister Shashi Payal runs a tea-snack shop near Mata
Bhuvaneshwari Devi temple. Yogi's elder brother's name is Manvendra Mohan. Two people are younger than him named Shailendra Mohan and Mahendra Mohan. Shailendra is in the Army, while two other brothers work in a college. Two sisters are housewives. Father Anand Singh Bisht passed away in 2020.
Know 10 stories related to Yogi's childhood
1. Liked the lentils of Kulad, used to say –
Didi cooks very well
Yogi Adityanath likes Kulad's lentils very much. This is a famous dish of Uttarakhand. It is called Phadu in Garhwal. Yogi's elder sister Shashi says, 'Bhai loves Phadu. Whenever I used to make Phadoo, he used to come to me and ask for more pulses. Used to say that Didi, you cook dal very well.
2. The doli was brought for my sister
Shashi says that when I was about to get married about 31 years ago, it was Maharajji (Yogi Adityanath) who brought the doll for me. On the question of tying Rakhi, Shashi told that now he does not even remember when was the last time he tied Rakhi to Yogi Adityanath. However, every time she sends Rakhi.
3. Used to scold brother-in-law even when he made a mistake
Yogi Adityanath's brother-in-law Puran Payal also brought back old memories. He told that after I got married to Shashi, Mahant Ji (Yogi Adityanath) stayed with us for about two-and-a-half years. He was in a strict mood from the beginning. If I had made any mistake, he would not hesitate. He was scolded immediately.
4. Said to the father, do some service to the public
Shashi says that when Yogi was 15-16 years old, he had told his father, 'Father, do you maintain your own family? Do some service to the public also. Then the father told him that son, I have a salary of 85 rupees. I'll take care of you, that's enough. Then further father said that I see what you do….
5. Brothers and sisters did not fight
Yogi's sister Shashi says that they are seven brothers and sisters. Even though small, everyone lived in unison. There was never a fight. All my brothers had great respect for elders. Shashi says, 'We were seven brothers and sisters. Apart from this, one Tauji had eight boys and one boy, one girl belonged to the other Tauji.
We were so many brothers and sisters but no one in the village seemed to know how many brothers and sisters we were. There was no noise. We all used to study in the same room.
6. Shashi used to study with a lantern in the middle
He says that in childhood all the 17 brothers and sisters used to study together in the same room. There was no light then.
Lanterns were kept in the middle and then everyone else used to sit in circular circles and read. If someone fell asleep, he would wake them up. They used to say… Oh, now you have to eat bread. Then the mother used to take everyone down... She used to feed everyone in the room.
7. Met Mahant Avaidyanath in college
Shashi tells that when the brother was studying in college, Goraksha Peethadheeshwar Mahant Avaidyanath had come to a program. It was here that his brother met him. Bhai gave a speech in that program, on hearing which Mahant Ji was happy and he called to Gorakhpur.
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8. Did not know that he would become a saint
In an interview, Yogi's father had said, 'In 1993, he (Yogi Adityanath) was introduced to Mahanj Avaidyanath Ji. Avaidyanath Ji was the MP then.
He told Yogi that you become my successor. But come ask the family first. Then he came home. He asked his mother to go to Gorakhpur. Then the mother thought that she must be going to work. But no one knew that he would become a saint.
9. When father went to pick him up, he sent him back
Shashi says that when we came to know that brother is in Gorakhpur, father went to meet him. There he saw a young sannyasin wearing saffron, with his head down, cleaning the floor.
When he reached near, he was my brother. At that time the father asked him to come back home. Told that come back home, your mother is in a bad condition by crying. But the brother refused.
10. Yogi
Shashi, who was not shaken by the mother's tears, says that when the brother refused to return, the father came back home. Then mother also went to Gorakhpur with him again.
On seeing the brother, the mother started crying. Then the brother told the mother that now I have come from a small family to a big family. I am living life in that way.