BJP MLAs elect Yogi Adityanath as the new Uttar Pradesh chief minister in the legislature party meeting in Lucknow.
The decision was taken after a meeting at Lok Bhawan that saw central observers – Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and national general secretary Bhupendra Yadav, BJP vice-president Om Mathur, state party chief Keshav Prasad Maurya and other senior party leaders in full attendance.
Adityanath’s name was proposed by BJP leader Suresh Khanna and was supported by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M Venkaiah Naidu.
The 44-year-old BJP leader comes from the Rajput community and is the head of the Gorakhnath Mutt in Gorakhpur. Known for his firebrand Hindutva image. He has been elected as the Lok Sabha MP from Gorakhpur uninterrupted from 1998.
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