Yogi Adityanath – Breaking Views

July 24, 2024
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Food Politics and Kanwar Yatra

For several years now I have been doing a television programme, ‘Elections on My Plate’ that takes viewers on an election campaign trail with food as an added attraction....

March 12, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Rise of a ‘new’ BJP in a ‘new’ India

If a week can be a long time in Indian politics, a decade is truly an eternity. Just jog back to Uttar Pradesh 2012 when the BJP won a...

January 15, 2022
TeamRS
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BJP’s OBC Challenge

Adityanath’s 80:20 formulation comes at a time when the BJP is battling to retain its crucial non-Yadav OBC voters who comprise nearly 35 per cent of the electorate. The...

January 14, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The 80:20 election and what it means for India

Yogi Adityanath has never hidden his saffron robes in politics. Which is why it wasn’t a surprise when the Uttar Pradesh chief minister called the elections in India’s most...

October 9, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Of Muslim and Dalit Lives in Yogi’s UP

Long before Boolgarhi village in Hathras, there was Bisada village in Dadri. Exactly five years ago in September 2015, a 50 year old Mohammed Akhlaq was lynched to death...

October 2, 2020
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Hathras Horror: Can CM Yogi Be Singled Out?

A young Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras on September 14. Unfortunately, the victim succumbed to injuries on Tuesday in Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. According to the...

July 19, 2019
TeamRS
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Amit Shah, Asaduddin Owaisi की बहस, Azam Khan, Mayawati के भाई पर आरोप,Richa Bharati Quran मुद्दे पर

The Lallantop weekend special Neta Nagri. We talk to senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai on Karnataka JDS-Congress coalition government no confidence motion, ICJ’s decision on Kulbhushan Jadhav. Yogi Adityanath government’s...

March 30, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

When ‘fringe’ becomes Mainstream: Hindu vote bank has arrived

One of the more intriguing narratives being spun after the appointment of Yogi Adityanath as the new Uttar Pradesh chief minister is to liken his rise to Narendra Modi....

March 28, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Thank god for cricket

There must be a world beyond Yogi Adityanath I keep telling myself. For the last week, television has been in a trance with a politician who we once consciously...

March 19, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

The Rise of the Yogi: the Mask is Off

The first time I met Yogi Adityanath was in his bastion of Gorakhpur ahead of the 1999 general elections. It was only the youthful Yogi’s second parliament election and...