Twitter Takes Jibes at the Yogi Adityanath Birthday, calls its UP Berozgar Diwas
June 5 is the birthday of Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh
June 5 is the birthday of Yogi Adityanath, the CM of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. Here are some fewer known facts about the Yogi Chief Minister:
- Yogi Adityanath was born as Ajay Mohan Bisht on 5 June 1972, in the village of Panchur, in Pauri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh.
- He was the second born in the family, among four brothers and three sisters.
- He completed his bachelor’s degree in mathematics.
- He left his home around the 1990s to join the Ayodhya Ram temple movement.
- Adityanath renounced his family in 1993 at the age of 21 and became a disciple of Mahant Avaidyanath, the then high priest of Gorakhnath Math.
- Yogi Adityanath was the youngest member of the 12th Lok Sabha at 26.
- He has been elected to the Parliament from Gorakhpur for five consecutive terms (in 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 elections)
- Adityanath’s attendance in Lok Sabha was 77% and he has asked 284 questions, participated in 56 debates and introduced three private member Bills in the 16th Lok Sabha.
- Yogi Adityanath has had strained relations with the BJP for more than a decade.
- He often derided and undermined the BJP, criticising its dilution of the Hindutva ideology.
- On 3 January 2016, a day after the terrorist attack on an Indian air force base in Pathankot allegedly by Pakistani terrorists, Adityanath compared Pakistan to Satan.
- Adityanath had praised then US President Donald Trump‘s decision to enact a ban on citizens from 7 Muslim-majority countries entering the United States and had called for India to adopt similar policies to tackle terrorism.
Unemployment in Uttar Pradesh under Ajay Mohan Bisht
According to a 2020 report by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), Uttar Pradesh’s unemployment rate increased 11.4 percentage points, rising to 21.5% in Apr 2020, according to a survey conducted by the CMIE. Over a longer time period, unemployment has moved from 2.1% in Jul 2017 to its current rate.
Unemployment in Uttar Pradesh was less than the national rate of 23.5%. Nationwide, unemployment was highest in Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, and Bihar at 49.8%, 47.1%, and 46.6% respectively. It was lowest in Punjab, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana at 2.9%, 3.4%, and 6.2% respectively.
There are a few frequently updated government metrics for tracking jobs in India, particularly in the informal sector. As a consequence, high-frequency indicators like the CMIE Unemployment Survey tend to be used as a proxy for evaluating the health of the labor market. The survey has a sample size of 43,600 households per month that are well distributed geographically, and across urban and rural areas.
Indian Twitter Users Mocked UP CM’s Birthday as #UP_Berozgar_Diwas
Users of the micro-blogging site on June 5 this year, appeared to be taking jibes at the UP-Chief Minister and the BJP government in the state by dubbing the day as the Unemployment Day of Uttar Pradesh. Users wrote:
The hashtag #यूपी_बेरोजगार_दिवस (#UP_Berozgar_Diwas) has garnered 240,000 tweets as of now and the tweets and retweets are flowing in as the day progresses.