{"id":313013,"date":"2019-06-05T08:29:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T08:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313013"},"modified":"2019-06-05T08:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T08:29:21","slug":"yogi-adityanath-turns-47-pm-modi-other-ministers-extend-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/yogi-adityanath-turns-47-pm-modi-other-ministers-extend-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yogi Adityanath turns 47; PM Modi, other ministers extend wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299679 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Yogi-Adityanath-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Yogi-Adityanath-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Yogi-Adityanath-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Yogi-Adityanath-1-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Yogi-Adityanath-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday turned 47, however, he stayed away from celebrations on his birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and several other senior BJP leaders wished Uttar Pradesh Chief Minster Adityanath on his birthday\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to his Twitter account and tweeted, \u201cGreetings to Uttar Pradesh\u2019s dynamic Chief Minister, @myogiadityanath Ji on his birthday. Yogi Ji has done commendable work in transforming Uttar Pradesh, especially in areas like agriculture, industry as well as in improving law and order. I pray for his long and healthy life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Home Minister Amit Shah wished Adityanath on his birthday and said: &#8220;I hope Uttar Pradesh will progress under your leadership and reach new heights. I pray for your long life and health.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also wished the chief minister on his birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also wished him on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBirthday greetings to Shri Yogi Adityanath ji, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. May God bless him with a long healthy life &amp; success in all his endeavours,\u201d Jaitley tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Adityanath was greeted by several other union Ministers through social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Yogi Adityanath was born as Ajay Mohan Bisht on June 5, 1972, in the village of Panchur, in\u00a0Pauri Garhwal. He became the youngest member of the Lok Sabha in 1998 when he won the election from UP&#8217;s Gorakhpur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He took over as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in March 2017 after the\u00a0BJP won the\u00a02017 State Assembly elections.\u00a0He has been the\u00a0Member of Parliament\u00a0from UP\u2019s Gorakhpur constituency, for five consecutive terms since 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday turned 47, however, he stayed away from celebrations on his birthday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and several other senior BJP leaders wished Uttar Pradesh Chief Minster Adityanath on his birthday\u00a0 Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to his Twitter account and tweeted, \u201cGreetings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313014,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313013\/revisions\/313014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}