CM Adityanath sets new milestones with record breaking victory
Written By: Sonali Singh
Yogi Adityanath and the BJP set seven new milestones in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election.
A number of records have been broken as a result of the BJP’s landslide victory in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election and chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s victory from the Gorakhpur (Urban) seat, as reported by The Times of India.
As the results were released on Thursday, the BJP and Adityanath set seven new records.
1. Yogi Adityanath is the first Chief Minister to finish his term and win re-election
On May 20, 1952, the first legislature of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, was formed. In the last 70 years, the state has had 21 governors. Adityanath has been the first chief minister in the state’s 70-year electoral history to complete a full five-year term and then win re-election.
2. Yogi Adityanath is the fifth chief minister to win a second term in a row.
Only five CMs have ever won a second term in Uttar Pradesh, including Adityanath. Sampurnananda in 1957, Chandrabhanu Gupta in 1962, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna in 1974, and Narayan Dutt Tiwari in 1985 were the four previous chief ministers to do so.
3. First CM to retain power in 37 years
When the state went to the election in 1985, ND Tiwari of the Congress was the undivided UP’s chief minister. The Congress triumphed, as did Tiwari, who was re-elected for the second time in a row. Since then, no CM has been able to keep his or her CM chair for a second term. Since then, Adityanath is the first chief minister to do so.
4. CM Adityanath is the first BJP chief minister to return to power
So far, the BJP has had four chief ministers in Uttar Pradesh. Before Adityanath, the position was held by Kalyan Singh, Ram Prakash Gupta, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. None of them, however, were able to win re-election for a second term. Mr. Adityanath is the first BJP chief minister to have done so.
5. MLA CM for the first time in 15 years
Yogi Adityanath will become the first MLA (member of legislative assembly) chief minister in 15 years when he takes the oath as chief minister for the second time. Ms. Mayawati previously served as CM as an MLC (member of legislative council) between 2007 and 2012.
When Mr. Akhilesh Yadav was CM between 2012 and 2017, he was also an MLC. Adityanath was a Lok Sabha MP when he became CM. He, too, elected to become an MLC after taking office rather than obtaining an MLA to leave an assembly seat and become an MLA within six months of taking office. He became UP’s fourth MLC CM in the process. In November 1999, Ram Prakash Gupta, also of the BJP, was elected as the state’s first MLC CM.
Adityanath was a five-term Lok Sabha MP from Gorakhpur when he was elected CM in 2017 when the BJP won 312 of the 403 assembly seats in a landslide victory. The NDA gained 325 seats with its two allies, Anupriya Patel’s Apna Dal and OP Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party.
At the time, two chief ministers are MLCs: Nitish Kumar in Bihar and Uddhav Thackeray in Maharashtra.
6. The tenure of the third CM has come to an end
In Adityanath’s name, a record has already been created. Only three of the 21 CMs in the last 70 years have served the full five-year term. Mayawati, the leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party, was the first (from 2007 to 2012), and Akhilesh Yadav, the president of the Samajwadi Party, was the second (2012-2017).
7. First Chief minister to remove Noida’s curse
In Uttar Pradesh politics, the “Noida jinx” is a feared phenomenon.
Noida, which stands for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, is a residential-industrial city in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, and a satellite town of the national capital Delhi.
According to the Noida jinx, any CM who visits the city during his or her term loses the next election or does not serve out his or her full term. On December 25, 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath defied superstition by visiting Noida to launch the Delhi Metro’s, Magenta Line.
Modi and Adityanath, according to Akhilesh Yadav, would lose the next Lok Sabha and Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, respectively. According to The Times of India, while Modi broke the jinx by winning the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Adityanath has also proven the jinx false.
The Noida jinx gained notoriety after then-UP CM Veer Bahadur Singh was forced to resign in June 1988, only days after returning from the city. After visiting Noida, Singh’s successor, ND Tiwari, was also forced to resign as CM. As a result, CMs and other leaders began to avoid Noida.
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Kalyan Singh, and Rajnath Singh, Akhilesh’s father, did not visit Noida while in power. Rajnath Singh was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from October 2000 until March 2002.
Akhilesh also skipped the Asian Development Bank (ADB) meeting in Noida in May 2013, when former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was the keynote guest. He avoided Noida once more when he opened the 165-kilometer Yamuna Expressway from Lucknow to the industrial hub. Mayawati, as Chief Minister, defied the jinx by going to Noida in October 2011 to launch the Dalit Smarak Sthal. According to the Times of India, she lost the 2012 assembly election.
