Yogi Adityanath was born as Ajay Mohan Bisht on 5 June 1972 in the village of Panchur, in Pauri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh.
Life and Education: Yogi Adityanath's father Anand Singh Bisht was a forest ranger. He was the second born in the family, among four brothers and three sisters.
Yogi Adityanath completed his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in Uttarakhand.
Political Career: Adityanath was the youngest member of the 12th Lok Sabha at 26. He has been elected to the Parliament from Gorakhpur for five consecutive terms
(in 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 elections). Adityanath'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.
He was appointed Chief Minister, of the state on Saturday, 18 March 2017 and sworn in the next day on 19 March,
after the BJP won the assembly elections. The illegal slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh faced shutdowns from the administration after
his becoming the Chief Minister. Yogi ordered the forming of anti-romeo squads. He imposed a blanket ban on cow-smuggling and stay on
UPPSC results, exams and interviews till further order. He imposed a ban on tobacco, pan and gutka in government offices across the
state and made the officials pledge to devote 100 hours every year for the Swachh Bharat Mission.
More than 100 policemen were suspended by the Uttar Pradesh police.
After becoming the CM of UP, he kept around 36 ministries to himself including Home, Housing, Town and country planning department,
Revenue, Food and Civil Supplies, Food Security and drug administration, Economics and statistics, Mines and Minerals, Flood control,
stamp and registry, prison, general administration, secretariat administration, vigilance, personnel and appointment, information,
institutional finance, planning, estate department, urban land, UP state reorganisation committee, administration reforms, programme
implementation, national integration, infrastructure, coordination, language, external aided project, Relief and Rehabilitation,
Public Service Management, Rent Control, Consumer protection, weights and measures.
In his first cabinet meeting held on 4 April 2017, decision was taken to waive off loans of nearly 87 lakh small and marginal farmers
of Uttar Pradesh, amounting to ₹363.59 billion. For India's Independence Day celebrations in 2017, his government
singled-out Muslim religious schools to provide video evidence that their students had sung the Indian national anthem