Yogi Adityanath

'The brother of the doctor accused in the Gorakhpur hospital tragedy last year was shot at three times on Sunday night. Gorakhpur is the constituency of Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Kashif Jameel, Khan’s 34-year-old brother, has survived the shooting and is in Star Hospital in Gorakhpur...'

'Over a thousand encounters in a year. That’s the record in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh. Since March 2017, 49 persons have been killed in over 1,100 encounters, more than 370 have been injured and over 3,300 arrested across the State. Most of the incidents have taken place in districts close to the national capital such as Meerut, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Saharanpur, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad and Noida... The Opposition parties have not only criticised the encounters, calling them fake, but also questioned why most of the dead were Dalits, Muslims or members of Backward Classes.

'In a move which has sent shock waves across the country, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has criminalised dissent and the idea of peaceful protests by booking anganwadi workers under charges of sedition when they demanded a better deal from the government. In Sitapur district, over 90 kms from the state capital Lucknow, four anganwadi workers had been active in organising protest demonstrations on their demands including an increase in their honorarium and regularisation of their jobs...'

'...The Muslims of Mohan Mundera, who belonged to the backward Ansari and Mansoori communities, had first heard about the Hindutva firebrand in 1999. That year, Adityanath had waded into a dispute in Pachrukhiya village in neighbouring Maharajganj district on behalf of local Hindus. A peepal tree, which stood on land that local Muslims claimed was part of a graveyard, had been cut down. In retaliation, a mob led by Adityanath stormed the village, trampled over the graves, and planted two dozen peepal trees.