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  • Yogi Adityanath will celebrate his 51st birthday in Gorakhpur today

    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

  • Safe Journey Every Citizen’s Right: Yogi Adityanath

    Safe Journey Every Citizen’s Right: Yogi Adityanath

    Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said it was the government’s responsibility to ensure safe road journeys to the passengers, to which each person has a right.

    The CM made the statement after flagging off 93 new Rajdhani bus services and seven regular buses. “The statistics of deaths resulting from road accidents are extremely alarming. If we were to present the figures of road accidents for Uttar Pradesh within a year, a horrific scenario would unfold,” he said, adding, in a year, more lives are lost in road accidents than COVID-19 claimed in three years.

    He said every life is precious not just for a family, but also for a society, and a country.

    Having said this, the CM called for a campaign to increase awareness and prevent traffic accidents and the deaths caused by them.

    Congratulating the Uttar Pradesh Transport Corporation on completing 50 years of journey, the CM said that on May 15, 1947, a state-owned transportation service was started in UP with the aim of providing smooth and safe travel to people.

    This state-owned transportation service eventually evolved into the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation on June 1, 1972, becoming the largest public transport service in the state with the largest population in the country, he said.

    “On this occasion, arrangements should be made to enhance the existing programmes of the Transport Corporation in a more effective manner,” he said.

    Adityanath said that if required, the government may even consider associating with private operators to provide transportation and bus services to every village and that it was not necessary the transport must stay within the remit of the state.

    Discussing the increasing demand for electric buses, the CM said, “wherever electric bus services have been initiated, there is a fresh surge in demand from the people.

    “We recently started electric bus service in 10 cities of Uttar Pradesh. Wherever we go, people are requesting us to start electric bus services in their areas as well,” he said.

    -With PTI Input