Aditya Nath Jha

Aditya Nath Jha of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) is the recipient of Padma Vibhushan in 1972 for his service to Civil Services in India. He belonged to the 1937 batch of the ICS.

Jha was the son of Sir Ganganath Jha, and the brother of Shri Amarnath Jha, a scholar of English and Sanskrit and former vice-chancellor of Allahabad University.

He also served as the first director of the National Academy of Administration, Mussorie.

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Yogi Adityanath

Mahanth Yogi Adityanath (born Ajay Singh; 5 June 1972) is an Indian politician and a priest. He is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament who has represented Gorakhpur in the Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian Parliament) 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.

Early life

Yogi Aidityanath hails from a Rajput family.

Political career

Adityanath was the youngest member of the 12th Lok Sabha at 26. He has been elected as an MP from Gorakhpur to the Lok Sabha in the 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 elections. He is the successor to former Hindu Mahasabha president Mahant Avaidyanath at the Gorakhpur temple. He holds a B. Sc. from the H.N.B. Garhwal University in Srinagar, Uttarakhand.