Yogi Adityanath as Uttar Pradesh CM: BJP never ceases to surprise

Will UP's chief minister rule for everyone?

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) never ceases to surprise. On March 11, it registered a landslide win in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and followed it up with the choice of Yogi Adityanath as chief minister of the country’s most populous state. Mr Adityanath’s name did not figure in any of the media shortlists of chief ministerial candidates possibly because of the perception that the party wanted to maintain a safe distance from the hardline Hindutva agenda that Mr Adityanath is known to be fond of, proved by his past utterances and actions. Besides being the head of the 15-year-old Hindu