The saffron-robed Ajay Singh Bisht, a five-time Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, has been the chief minister of India’s largest state since 2017. When he became a monk and then the mahant or head priest of the Gorakhnath Math, a Hindu temple in Gorakhpur, he had adopted the name Yogi Adityanath.
His Lok Sabha profile described him as a “religious missionary and social worker”. He founded and led a youth militia called the Hindu Yuva Vahini that is often alleged to have instigated and organised communal violence. He is one of the most polarising but also wildly popular hardline Hindutva leaders in the country.
Adityanath’s tenure has been marked by a sustained campaign to absolve all persons accused of hate speech and hate crimes – beginning with the chief minister himself.
Just months after being sworn as chief minister in March 2017, Adityanath announced in the state assembly that the state government would soon withdraw nearly 20,000 criminal cases lodged against politicians and political workers across parties. The move, he said, aimed to reduce the pendency of cases.
His government tabled The Uttar Pradesh Criminal Law (Composition of Offences and Abatement of Trials) (Amendment) Bill, 2017, in the state assembly to give effect to this...
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