Yogi Adityanath

In India, the Bharatiya Janata Party named Yogi Adityanath, a Hindu hard-liner, as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP), the country’s most populous and politically significant state, where PM Modi’s party scored an overwhelming victory in a ballot to pick the next state government last month. Adityanath, a five-term MP who appears in public in the saffron robes worn by Hindu priests, is in charge of a territory that is home to some 220 million people — around 40 million of whom are minority Muslims.

hard-liner pur et dur / populous peuplé / significant important / PM = Prime Minister / to score ici, obtenir / overwhelming ici, écrasant (majoritaire) / ballot vote, élection / to pick sélectionner, choisir; ici, élire / saffron (jaune) safran / robe vêtement long et ample / to wear, wore, worn porter (vêtement) / priest prêtre / to be home to ici, compter / Muslim musulman.