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Despite the conflict, several RSS and VHP leaders attended the Mahasammelan, which issued a commitment to pursue the Hindutva goals despite the BJP's claimed "abandonment" of them. During 22–24 December 2006, Adityanath organised a three-day Virat Hindu Mahasammelan at Gorakhpur at the same time as the BJP National Executive Meet in Lucknow. Advani, the RSS chief Rajendra Singh and the VHP chief Ashok Singhal have visited him in Gorakhpur. ĭespite his periodic revolts, Yogi Adityanath has been kept in good humour by the RSS and the BJP leaders. In 2009 Parliamentary elections, Adityanath was rumoured to have campaigned against the BJP candidates who were then defeated. In 2007, Adityanath threatened to field 70 candidates for the state assembly against the BJP candidates. The most prominent example was the fielding of Radha Mohan Das Agarwal from Gorakhpur on a Hindu Mahasabha ticket in 2002, who then defeated BJP Cabinet minister, Shiv Pratap Shukla by a wide margin. When his voice was not heard, he revolted by fielding candidates against the official BJP candidates. Having established his own independent power base in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, with the support of the Hindu Yuva Vahini and the Gorakhnath Math, he felt confident to be able to dictate terms to the BJP. He often derided and undermined the BJP, criticising its dilution of the Hindutva ideology. Relations with the BJPĪdityanath has had strained relations with the BJP for more than a decade. Īdityanath's attendance in Lok Sabha was 77% and he has asked 284 questions, participated in 56 debates and introduced three private member Bills in the 16th Lok Sabha.
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He was elected to the Parliament from Gorakhpur for five consecutive terms (in 1998, 1999, 2004, 20 elections). Member of ParliamentĪdityanath was the youngest member of the 12th Lok Sabha at 26. The attack left one person dead and at least six persons injured. In 2008, his convoy was reportedly attacked while en route to Azamgarh for an anti-terrorism rally. In 2006, he took up links between Nepali Maoists and Indian Leftist parties as a key campaign issue and encouraged Madhesi leaders to oppose Maoism in Nepal. However, the BJP has not let the tensions mount because Adityanath has served as a star campaigner for the party. There have been recurrent tensions between Adityanath and the BJP leadership over the allocation of election tickets. Īfter his first electoral win, Adityanath started his own youth organisation Hindu Yuva Vahini, which came to be known for its activities in the eastern Uttar Pradesh and was instrumental in Adityanath's meteoric rise. Four yearas after Adityanath was designated Avaidyanath's successor, he was elected to the Lower House of the Indian Parliament (the Lok Sabha). Avaidyanath switched to the BJP in 1991, but nevertheless maintained significant autonomy. After the BJP and the Sangh Parivar joined the Ayodhya movement in the 1980s, the two strands of Hindu nationalism came together. Both Digvijay Nath and his successor Avaidyanath belonged to the Hindu Mahasabha and were elected to the Parliament on that party's ticket. Scholar Christophe Jaffrelot states that Yogi Adityanath belongs to a specific tradition of Hindutva politics in Uttar Pradesh that can be traced back to the Mahant Digvijay Nath, who led the capture of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya for Hindus on 22 December 1949. He was made Peethadhishwar (Head Seer) of the Math amid traditional rituals of the Nath sect a few days later. Īdityanath was promoted to the rank of Mahant or high priest of the Gorakhnath Math after the death of Aavaidyanath on 12 September 2014.
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While based in Gorakhpur after his initiation, Adityanath has often visited his ancestral village, establishing a school there in 1998. Upon taking diksha as sanyasi of the Nath tradition, he was given the name 'Yogi Adityanath' and designated as the successor of the Mahant Avaidyanath.
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Around that time, he also became a disciple of Mahant Avaidyanath, the chief of the Gorakhnath Math. He left his home around the 1990s to join the Ayodhya Ram temple movement. He completed his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in Uttarakhand. He was the second born in the family, among four brothers and three sisters. His late father, Anand Singh Bisht, was a forest ranger. Yogi Adityanath was born as Ajay Mohan Bisht on 5 June 1972 in the village of Panchur, in Pauri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand).