Yogi Adityanath is a mahant, an Indian famous politician from Gorakhnath temple of Gorakhpur and since the 19th March 2017 the Chief Minister of the State of Uttar Pradesh.
He took the oath of office of the 21st Chief Minister after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s big victory in the state assembly elections on 19 March 2017. He represented Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket from 1998 to 2017 and was also elected as an MP in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Adityanath Gorakhnath is the successor of Avaidyanath, the former Mahant of the temple. He is also the founder of Hindu Yuva Vahini, a social, cultural, and nationalist group of Hindu youth, and his image is that of a strong Hindu nationalist leader in India.

Facts About Yogi Adityanath
- Born: 5 June 1972, Panchur, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttar Pradesh, India
(present-day Uttarakhand, India) - Real Name: Ajay Mohan Bisht
- Other Name: Mahant Yogi Adityanath
- Guru: Mahant Avaidyanath
- Age: 50 year’s old
- Height: 5 feet 3 inches (1.63 m)
- Religion: Hinduism
- Nationality: Indian
- Education: Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University
- Political Party: Bharatiya Janata Party
- Father: Anand Singh Bisht
- Mother: Savitri Devi
- Siblings:
Mahendra Singh Bisht
Shashi Singh
Shailendra Mohan
Manvendra Mohan - Website: http://www.yogiadityanath.in/
Yogi Adityanath Wikipedia
Yogi Adityanath’s real name is Ajay Mohan Bisht born on 5 June 1972 in the village of Panchur, in Pauri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh (present-day Uttarakhand, India). His father’s name is Anand Singh Bisht who was a forest ranger, and his mother’s name is Savitri Devi. His father Anand Singh Bisht died on 20 April 2020.
He was the fifth of seven children of his parents, after three elder sisters and one elder brother, and he has two younger brothers. At the age of 21, Yogi Adityanath left his family and became a complete monk in 1994, after which he was named Yogi Adityanath from Ajay Singh Bisht.
He became a disciple of Mahanta Avaidyanath, the chief priest of Gorakhnath Math. After the death of Mahanta Avaidyanath on September 12, 2014, Yogi Adityanath was promoted to the post of Chief Priest of Gorakhnath Math.