Yogi Adityanath will celebrate his 51st birthday in Gorakhpur today

Lucknow (IANS) | Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath turned 51 on Monday. On the occasion of his birthday, he will perform a ‘special puja’ at the Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur. There is no official ceremony for a birthday.

Yogi Adityanath is currently in his second term as the 22nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He first contested the Lok Sabha elections in 1998 representing the Gorakhpur constituency.

Born on June 5, 1972, in Panchur, a small town in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, Yogi assumed the chief minister’s chair in March 2017.

Before becoming the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath served as the MP of Gorakhpur for five consecutive terms from 1998 to 2017.

Apart from his political career, he holds the position of head priest at Gorakhnath Math, located in Gorakhpur.

Yogi Adityanath has been associated with the BJP since his youth, and began his political journey as a student leader in the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He joined the BJP in 1991 and was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998.

Yogi Adityanath is known for his Hindutva ideology. During his tenure as chief minister, he has strongly advocated cow protection and expressed support for a nationwide ban on cow slaughter.

Prior to his political career, Adityanath earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and became involved in the Ayodhya Ram temple movement in the 1990s. At the age of 21, he left his family and became a disciple of Mahant Avaidyanath, the former high priest of Gorakhnath Math.

–IANS