Mahanth Yogi Adityanath is an politician and a priest. He is a Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament who has represented Gorakhpur in the Lok Sabha since 1998. Adityanath is the Mahant or head priest of the Gorakhnath Mutt, a Hindu temple in Gorakhpur, following the death of his spiritual "father," Mahant Avaidyanath in September 2014. He is also the founder of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, a social, cultural and nationalist group of youth who seek to provide rightist Hindu platform. ... more on Wikipedia