योगी आदित्य नाथ उत्तर प्रदेश के मुख्य मंत्री के बारे में जानिए।
UP CM Yogi Adityanath's Appointment and Decisions have trapped due to real Governance,
Signs of PM Modi's Governance model in Yogi Adityanath's first week as a CM of UP,
Yogi Adityanath CM of UP యోగి ఆదిత్యనాధ్ ఉత్తరప్రదేశ్,
The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath calls on the Prime Minister,
10 things UP CM Yogi Adityanath did during his first week in Office,
Yogi Adityanath wants Gomti project linked to Namami Gange,
Yogi Adityanath: Yogi Adityanath News,
Parliament में JNU पर Yogi Adityanath की Rahul को फटकार,
Adityanath Yogi Biography - About family, Political Life, Awards Won,
UP CM Yogi Adityanath a handful for PM Modi in Uttar Pradesh,
Yogi Adityanath UP CM 50 big decisions for cabinet meeting,
After Uttar Pradesh success, Yogi Adityanath to be BJP's Star,
Yogi Adityanath News - Yogi Adityanath,
Yogi Adityanath News, Latest Breaking News on Yogi Adityanath,
New UP CM Yogi Adityanath - Live Updates & News,
Yogi Adityanath Contact Number,
Yogi Adityanath Speech,
Yogi Adityanath Photos,
Yogi Adityanath in Aap ki adalat,
Yogi Adityanath facebook,
Hindu Yuva Vahini Yogi Adityanath,
Yogi Adityanath speech in Hindi,
Yogi Adityanath to be BJP's star campaigner for Gujarat Elections,
Adityanath, Shri Yogi - Members: Lok Sabha,
Yogi Adityanath - Latest News on Yogi Adityanath | Read Breaking News,
10 facts to know about Uttar Pradesh's Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath,
Popularity, charisma and RSS: Yogi Adityanath, a choice cloaked in,
Yogi Adityanath - PRS,
Will Yogi Adityanath succeed Modi as Prime Pinister of India?,
Yogi Adityanath parody account pokes fun at the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister,
How The Muslim BJP Loyalist Made Her Peace With Yogi Adityanath,
The importance of being Yogi Adityanath,
Development for all, Appeasement for none: Yogi Adityanath in UP Cabinet,
Hardline Hindu priest Yogi Adityanath a handful for Modi in Uttar Pradesh,
Yogi Adityanath as UP Chief Minister: What the global media is saying,
योगी आदित्यनाथ हिंदी न्यूज़, योगी,
Yogi Adityanath Profiles | Facebook,
Aditya Nath Yogi to steer Gujarat campaign for BJP with PM Modi, Amit Shah,
Yogi Adityanath took 50 decisions in 150 hours; here’s a list of UP Ministers,
'Leave UP or go to Jail': Yogi Adityanath warns Supporters of Criminals,
UP CM Yogi Adityanath: More of a Statesman than a Rabble-Rouser,
Yogi Adityanath: Yogi Adityanath original name Ajay Singh Bisht born on 05 June 1972. Yogi Adityanath is an Indian priest and politician with an image as a Hindutva (Hindu Nationalist) "firebrand". Yogi Adityanath is the current Chief Minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was appointed in March 2017 after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the 2017 state assembly elections, in which he was a prominent campaigner. Yogi Adityanath has been the Member of Parliament (MP) from the Gorakhpur constituency, Uttar Pradesh for five consecutive terms since 1998. Yogi Adityanath is also the Mahant or head priest of the Gorakhnath Math, a Hindu temple in Gorakhpur, a position he has held since the death of his spiritual Father Mahant Avaidyanath, in September 2014. Yogi Adityanath is also the founder of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, a youth organisation for reforming Hindu religion.
Yogi Adityanath Early life and Education: Yogi Adityanath was born as Ajay Singh Bisht into a Garhwali Rajput family on 5th June 1972 in the village of Panchur, in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand (formerly in Uttar Pradesh). Yogi Adityanath’s father Anand Singh Bisht was a forest ranger. Yogi Adityanath completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in Uttarakhand.
Yogi Adityanath left home in 1990 to join the Ayodhya Ram Temple Movement. Yogi Adityanath came under the influence of Mahant Avaidyanath, the chief priest of the Gorakhnath Math, and became his disciple. Subsequently Yogi Adityanath was given the name 'Yogi Adityanath' and designated as the successor of the Mahant Avaidyanath. While based in Gorakhpur after his initiation, Yogi Adityanath has often visited his ancestral village, establishing a school there in 1998.
His Religious career: Yogi Adityanath renounced his family at the age of 21 years and became a disciple of Mahant Avaidyanath, then the head priest of Gorakhnath Math. Yogi Adityanath was promoted to the rank of Mahant of Guru Gorakhnath Temple, following the death of Mahant Aavaidyanath on 12 September 2014. Yogi Adityanath was made Peethadhishwar of Gorakhnath Temple amid traditional rituals of the Nath sect on 14 September 2014.
His Politics: A 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. Both Digvijay Nath and his successor, Mahant Avaidyanath, belonged to the Hindu Mahasabha and were elected to the Parliament on that party's ticket. After the BJP and the Sangh Parivar joined the Ayodhya movement in the 1980s, the two strands of Hindu Nationalism came together. Yogi Avaidyanath switched with the BJP in 1991, but nevertheless maintained significant autonomy. Yogi Adityanath was appointed Avaidyanath's successor as the Mahant of Gorakhnath Math in 1994. 4 years later, Yogi Adityanath was elected MP to the Lower House of the Indian Parliament (in the Lok Sabha).
Yogi Adityanath was the youngest member of the 12th Lok Sabha at the age of 26 years. He has been elected to the Parliament Member from Gorakhpur for 5 consecutive terms (in 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 elections).
After his first electoral win, Yogi Adityanath started his own Hindu youth wing Hindu Yuva Vahini, which has been known for uniting the Hindus in the Purvanchal region in eastern Uttar Pradesh but was instrumental in Adityanath's meteoric rise. There have been recurrent tensions between Adityanath and the BJP leadership over the allocation of election tickets. However, the BJP has not let the tensions mount because Yogi Adityanath has served as a star campaigner for the BJP party.
Yogi Adityanath's attendance in Lok Sabha was 77% and he has asked 284 questions, participated in 56 debates and introduced 3 private member Bills in the 16th Lok Sabha.
Yogi Adityanath Relations with the BJP: Yogi Adityanath has had strained relations with the BJP for more than a decade. Yogi often derided and undermined the BJP, criticising its dilution of the Hindutva ideology. Having established his own independent powerbase 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. When his voice was not heard, he revolted by fielding candidates against the official BJP candidates.
Despite his periodic revolts, Yogi Adityanath has been kept in good humour by the RSS and the BJP leaders. The deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani, the RSS chief Rajendra Singh and the VHP chief Ashok Singhal have visited him in Gorakhpur. During 22–24 December 2006, Yogi Adityanath organised a 3 -day Virat Hindu Mahasammelan at Gorakhpur at the same time as the BJP National Executive Meet in Lucknow. 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. In March 2010, Yogi Adityanath was one of several BJP MPs who defied the party whip on the Women's Reservation Bill in the Parliament.
As a Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath was a prominent campaigner for the BJP in the 2017 Assembly Elections in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Yogi Adityanath was appointed Chief Minister of the state on 19 March 2017 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 and imposed a blanket ban on cow-smuggling. Yogi also imposed a stay on UPPSC results, exams and interviews till further order. Yogi 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 Officials.
Yogi Ministries: After becoming the CM of UP, Yogi 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.
Having gone through Triple Talaq herself, Sofia Ahmed joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) because of its promise to combat the practice if it came to power in Uttar Pradesh. So, to the astonishment of her friends and family, the 23-year-old Muslim woman from Kanpur campaigned for the BJP in the recently concluded UP Assembly Elections.
During that first conversation, parts of which were published last month, Ahmed had dismissed Hindutva firebrands such as Yogi Adityanath and Sangeet Som as fringe elements. For her, Modi and his promise of "sab ka saath, sab ka vikaas" (inclusive Governance) represented the true face of the BJP. If he occasionally tugged at communal chords, Sofia said, it was because some measure of polarisation was sadly unavoidable in Indian politics. Now, with Yogi Adityanath being chosen as the Chief Minister, the fringe seems to have morphed into the mainstream.
The BJP leader have for several years, been accused of polarizing Hindus in order to stay in power. Yogi has championed "Ghar Wapsi", a political campaign of reconversion back to Hinduism and founded a right-wing group called the Hindu Yuva Vahini, which is reforming or uniting Hindus in eastern UP.
In light of these developments, HuffPost India contacted Sofia Ahmed to find out whether she still supported the BJP and if she would continue to work for the party under Yogi Adityanath's leadership. It turned out that Sofia does and she will.
Sofia Ahmed admitted she was "shocked and a little disappointed" to see a "Kattar" (Hardliner) proponent of Hindutva being appointed the CM. But she recalled that similar fears were expressed over Modi when he became the Prime Minister in 2014.
"They said things would be similar to the 2002 riots, that Muslims would be killed, but they were wrong," Sofia Ahmed said. "Modi is now remembered for things other than the riots of 2002. The past few years have mostly been peaceful. I'm positive the same will happen under Yogi Adityanath," Sofia added.
It is true there have been no recent communal riots comparable to the scale of Gujarat 2002, although the one in Muzaffarnagar in 2013 comes to mind (SP Govt.). Moreover, the outgoing Samajwadi Party government, and not the BJP, was criticized by both Hindus and Muslims in UP for failing to control communal flare-ups over the past 5 years in the UP state.
But what did Sofia Ahmed think of the rise of the Gau Rakshaks, the lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri for allegedly possessing beef, and the hue and cry over the banning of actors and movies from Pakistan after a deadly terror attack on an Indian Army base in Kashmir last year?
First of all, Sofia Ahmed said, it was Modi who had swatted down the Gau Rakshaks. Second, many Muslims also believe that Pakistani actors should not work in India unless cross-border terrorism comes to an end.
After the initial shock of Yogi Adityanath becoming the CM had waned, Sofia Ahmed said she started reading up on the 44-year-old, a 5 - time Lok Sabha member from the eastern district of Gorakhpur and the head priest of the Gorakhnath temple. Ahmed was impressed by how regular he had been in Parliament and by some of his speeches.
As chief minister, you have the responsibility to work for the development of all communities.
Rationalising Adityanath: Adityanath's elevation as Chief Minister is widely regarded as an early move to consolidate the Hindu vote for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. A unified Hindu front would help the BJP, if the "Secular" parties were to form an alliance to combat it.
Reacting to these incidents, Sofia Ahmed said, "I'm not saying nothing bad will ever happen. But I believe the law and order situation under the CM is going to improve a lot. You can already hear the difference in the things he is saying and doing. It's a good start."
"I believe that the law and order situation under the CM is going to improve a lot".
But can the BJP stake claim to genuinely improving law and order when one community disempowered and is almost always too frightened to react in the face of provocation?
When pressed on the fact that the BJP had not fielded a single Muslim candidate, and that there was only one Muslim face in Yogi Adityanath's cabinet, Sofia Ahmed said, "Look, even I had hesitated to go with the BJP. But one has to look at the big picture. And that shows only Modi can deliver big changes. I think we all need to start thinking as Indians, not just as Hindus or Muslims," Sofia said.
If that is the case, how did Sofia Ahmed rationalise working for a party that had already made it so clear that Hindu consolidation would be central to its 2019 Lok Sabha campaign? "If there is more Hinduism then it will be in a positive way not in a way that divides Hindus and Muslims," Sofia said.
"If there more Hinduism then it will be in a positive way not in a way that divides Hindus and Muslims".
Sofia Ahmed said she doesn't have all the answers but her gut tells her she is doing the right thing. Sofia B.Com Graduate said, she wants a bigger role in the BJP and eventually carve a niche for herself in politics.
On the one hand, her decision to stick with the BJP continues to shock many in the Muslim community. On the other hand, Sofia Ahmed said she gets dozens of calls from other Muslim women, who are at the receiving end of the Triple Talaq, seeking her help and advice for better their life.
On its promise to combat the Triple Talaq, Sofia Ahmed intends to hold the new BJP Government accountable. "Now is the time to take action. I will not leave this issue. I'm going to fight," Sofia said.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath's Appointment and Decisions have trapped due to real Governance,
Signs of PM Modi's Governance model in Yogi Adityanath's first week as a CM of UP,
Yogi Adityanath CM of UP యోగి ఆదిత్యనాధ్ ఉత్తరప్రదేశ్,
The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath calls on the Prime Minister,
10 things UP CM Yogi Adityanath did during his first week in Office,
Yogi Adityanath wants Gomti project linked to Namami Gange,
Yogi Adityanath: Yogi Adityanath News,
Parliament में JNU पर Yogi Adityanath की Rahul को फटकार,
Adityanath Yogi Biography - About family, Political Life, Awards Won,
UP CM Yogi Adityanath a handful for PM Modi in Uttar Pradesh,
Yogi Adityanath UP CM 50 big decisions for cabinet meeting,
After Uttar Pradesh success, Yogi Adityanath to be BJP's Star,
Yogi Adityanath News - Yogi Adityanath,
Yogi Adityanath News, Latest Breaking News on Yogi Adityanath,
New UP CM Yogi Adityanath - Live Updates & News,
Yogi Adityanath Contact Number,
Yogi Adityanath Speech,
Yogi Adityanath Photos,
Yogi Adityanath in Aap ki adalat,
Yogi Adityanath facebook,
Hindu Yuva Vahini Yogi Adityanath,
Yogi Adityanath speech in Hindi,
Yogi Adityanath to be BJP's star campaigner for Gujarat Elections,
Adityanath, Shri Yogi - Members: Lok Sabha,
Yogi Adityanath - Latest News on Yogi Adityanath | Read Breaking News,
10 facts to know about Uttar Pradesh's Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath,
Popularity, charisma and RSS: Yogi Adityanath, a choice cloaked in,
Yogi Adityanath - PRS,
Will Yogi Adityanath succeed Modi as Prime Pinister of India?,
Yogi Adityanath parody account pokes fun at the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister,
How The Muslim BJP Loyalist Made Her Peace With Yogi Adityanath,
The importance of being Yogi Adityanath,
Development for all, Appeasement for none: Yogi Adityanath in UP Cabinet,
Hardline Hindu priest Yogi Adityanath a handful for Modi in Uttar Pradesh,
Yogi Adityanath as UP Chief Minister: What the global media is saying,
योगी आदित्यनाथ हिंदी न्यूज़, योगी,
Yogi Adityanath Profiles | Facebook,
Aditya Nath Yogi to steer Gujarat campaign for BJP with PM Modi, Amit Shah,
Yogi Adityanath took 50 decisions in 150 hours; here’s a list of UP Ministers,
'Leave UP or go to Jail': Yogi Adityanath warns Supporters of Criminals,
UP CM Yogi Adityanath: More of a Statesman than a Rabble-Rouser,
Yogi Adityanath: Yogi Adityanath original name Ajay Singh Bisht born on 05 June 1972. Yogi Adityanath is an Indian priest and politician with an image as a Hindutva (Hindu Nationalist) "firebrand". Yogi Adityanath is the current Chief Minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was appointed in March 2017 after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the 2017 state assembly elections, in which he was a prominent campaigner. Yogi Adityanath has been the Member of Parliament (MP) from the Gorakhpur constituency, Uttar Pradesh for five consecutive terms since 1998. Yogi Adityanath is also the Mahant or head priest of the Gorakhnath Math, a Hindu temple in Gorakhpur, a position he has held since the death of his spiritual Father Mahant Avaidyanath, in September 2014. Yogi Adityanath is also the founder of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, a youth organisation for reforming Hindu religion.
Yogi Adityanath Early life and Education: Yogi Adityanath was born as Ajay Singh Bisht into a Garhwali Rajput family on 5th June 1972 in the village of Panchur, in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand (formerly in Uttar Pradesh). Yogi Adityanath’s father Anand Singh Bisht was a forest ranger. Yogi Adityanath completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in Uttarakhand.
Yogi Adityanath left home in 1990 to join the Ayodhya Ram Temple Movement. Yogi Adityanath came under the influence of Mahant Avaidyanath, the chief priest of the Gorakhnath Math, and became his disciple. Subsequently Yogi Adityanath was given the name 'Yogi Adityanath' and designated as the successor of the Mahant Avaidyanath. While based in Gorakhpur after his initiation, Yogi Adityanath has often visited his ancestral village, establishing a school there in 1998.
His Religious career: Yogi Adityanath renounced his family at the age of 21 years and became a disciple of Mahant Avaidyanath, then the head priest of Gorakhnath Math. Yogi Adityanath was promoted to the rank of Mahant of Guru Gorakhnath Temple, following the death of Mahant Aavaidyanath on 12 September 2014. Yogi Adityanath was made Peethadhishwar of Gorakhnath Temple amid traditional rituals of the Nath sect on 14 September 2014.
His Politics: A 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. Both Digvijay Nath and his successor, Mahant Avaidyanath, belonged to the Hindu Mahasabha and were elected to the Parliament on that party's ticket. After the BJP and the Sangh Parivar joined the Ayodhya movement in the 1980s, the two strands of Hindu Nationalism came together. Yogi Avaidyanath switched with the BJP in 1991, but nevertheless maintained significant autonomy. Yogi Adityanath was appointed Avaidyanath's successor as the Mahant of Gorakhnath Math in 1994. 4 years later, Yogi Adityanath was elected MP to the Lower House of the Indian Parliament (in the Lok Sabha).
Yogi Adityanath was the youngest member of the 12th Lok Sabha at the age of 26 years. He has been elected to the Parliament Member from Gorakhpur for 5 consecutive terms (in 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 elections).
After his first electoral win, Yogi Adityanath started his own Hindu youth wing Hindu Yuva Vahini, which has been known for uniting the Hindus in the Purvanchal region in eastern Uttar Pradesh but was instrumental in Adityanath's meteoric rise. There have been recurrent tensions between Adityanath and the BJP leadership over the allocation of election tickets. However, the BJP has not let the tensions mount because Yogi Adityanath has served as a star campaigner for the BJP party.
Yogi Adityanath's attendance in Lok Sabha was 77% and he has asked 284 questions, participated in 56 debates and introduced 3 private member Bills in the 16th Lok Sabha.
Yogi Adityanath Relations with the BJP: Yogi Adityanath has had strained relations with the BJP for more than a decade. Yogi often derided and undermined the BJP, criticising its dilution of the Hindutva ideology. Having established his own independent powerbase 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. When his voice was not heard, he revolted by fielding candidates against the official BJP candidates.
Despite his periodic revolts, Yogi Adityanath has been kept in good humour by the RSS and the BJP leaders. The deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani, the RSS chief Rajendra Singh and the VHP chief Ashok Singhal have visited him in Gorakhpur. During 22–24 December 2006, Yogi Adityanath organised a 3 -day Virat Hindu Mahasammelan at Gorakhpur at the same time as the BJP National Executive Meet in Lucknow. 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. In March 2010, Yogi Adityanath was one of several BJP MPs who defied the party whip on the Women's Reservation Bill in the Parliament.
As a Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath was a prominent campaigner for the BJP in the 2017 Assembly Elections in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Yogi Adityanath was appointed Chief Minister of the state on 19 March 2017 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 and imposed a blanket ban on cow-smuggling. Yogi also imposed a stay on UPPSC results, exams and interviews till further order. Yogi 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 Officials.
Yogi Ministries: After becoming the CM of UP, Yogi 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.
How This Muslim BJP Loyalist Made Her Peace with Yogi Adityanath Becoming the CM of UP: "We all need to start thinking as Indians, not just as Hindus or Muslims."
Thought of Muslim Women: When HuffPost India first spoke with Sofia Ahmed some weeks ago, she was full of praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Government's stand against Triple Talaq (The right to unilateral oral divorce granted to Muslim men by Islamic law).Having gone through Triple Talaq herself, Sofia Ahmed joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) because of its promise to combat the practice if it came to power in Uttar Pradesh. So, to the astonishment of her friends and family, the 23-year-old Muslim woman from Kanpur campaigned for the BJP in the recently concluded UP Assembly Elections.
During that first conversation, parts of which were published last month, Ahmed had dismissed Hindutva firebrands such as Yogi Adityanath and Sangeet Som as fringe elements. For her, Modi and his promise of "sab ka saath, sab ka vikaas" (inclusive Governance) represented the true face of the BJP. If he occasionally tugged at communal chords, Sofia said, it was because some measure of polarisation was sadly unavoidable in Indian politics. Now, with Yogi Adityanath being chosen as the Chief Minister, the fringe seems to have morphed into the mainstream.
The BJP leader have for several years, been accused of polarizing Hindus in order to stay in power. Yogi has championed "Ghar Wapsi", a political campaign of reconversion back to Hinduism and founded a right-wing group called the Hindu Yuva Vahini, which is reforming or uniting Hindus in eastern UP.
In light of these developments, HuffPost India contacted Sofia Ahmed to find out whether she still supported the BJP and if she would continue to work for the party under Yogi Adityanath's leadership. It turned out that Sofia does and she will.
Sofia Ahmed admitted she was "shocked and a little disappointed" to see a "Kattar" (Hardliner) proponent of Hindutva being appointed the CM. But she recalled that similar fears were expressed over Modi when he became the Prime Minister in 2014.
"They said things would be similar to the 2002 riots, that Muslims would be killed, but they were wrong," Sofia Ahmed said. "Modi is now remembered for things other than the riots of 2002. The past few years have mostly been peaceful. I'm positive the same will happen under Yogi Adityanath," Sofia added.
It is true there have been no recent communal riots comparable to the scale of Gujarat 2002, although the one in Muzaffarnagar in 2013 comes to mind (SP Govt.). Moreover, the outgoing Samajwadi Party government, and not the BJP, was criticized by both Hindus and Muslims in UP for failing to control communal flare-ups over the past 5 years in the UP state.
But what did Sofia Ahmed think of the rise of the Gau Rakshaks, the lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri for allegedly possessing beef, and the hue and cry over the banning of actors and movies from Pakistan after a deadly terror attack on an Indian Army base in Kashmir last year?
First of all, Sofia Ahmed said, it was Modi who had swatted down the Gau Rakshaks. Second, many Muslims also believe that Pakistani actors should not work in India unless cross-border terrorism comes to an end.
After the initial shock of Yogi Adityanath becoming the CM had waned, Sofia Ahmed said she started reading up on the 44-year-old, a 5 - time Lok Sabha member from the eastern district of Gorakhpur and the head priest of the Gorakhnath temple. Ahmed was impressed by how regular he had been in Parliament and by some of his speeches.
As chief minister, you have the responsibility to work for the development of all communities.
Rationalising Adityanath: Adityanath's elevation as Chief Minister is widely regarded as an early move to consolidate the Hindu vote for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. A unified Hindu front would help the BJP, if the "Secular" parties were to form an alliance to combat it.
Reacting to these incidents, Sofia Ahmed said, "I'm not saying nothing bad will ever happen. But I believe the law and order situation under the CM is going to improve a lot. You can already hear the difference in the things he is saying and doing. It's a good start."
"I believe that the law and order situation under the CM is going to improve a lot".
But can the BJP stake claim to genuinely improving law and order when one community disempowered and is almost always too frightened to react in the face of provocation?
When pressed on the fact that the BJP had not fielded a single Muslim candidate, and that there was only one Muslim face in Yogi Adityanath's cabinet, Sofia Ahmed said, "Look, even I had hesitated to go with the BJP. But one has to look at the big picture. And that shows only Modi can deliver big changes. I think we all need to start thinking as Indians, not just as Hindus or Muslims," Sofia said.
If that is the case, how did Sofia Ahmed rationalise working for a party that had already made it so clear that Hindu consolidation would be central to its 2019 Lok Sabha campaign? "If there is more Hinduism then it will be in a positive way not in a way that divides Hindus and Muslims," Sofia said.
"If there more Hinduism then it will be in a positive way not in a way that divides Hindus and Muslims".
Sofia Ahmed said she doesn't have all the answers but her gut tells her she is doing the right thing. Sofia B.Com Graduate said, she wants a bigger role in the BJP and eventually carve a niche for herself in politics.
On the one hand, her decision to stick with the BJP continues to shock many in the Muslim community. On the other hand, Sofia Ahmed said she gets dozens of calls from other Muslim women, who are at the receiving end of the Triple Talaq, seeking her help and advice for better their life.
On its promise to combat the Triple Talaq, Sofia Ahmed intends to hold the new BJP Government accountable. "Now is the time to take action. I will not leave this issue. I'm going to fight," Sofia said.
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