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UP Cabinet 2017: Full List of UP CM’s Yogi Adityanath’s Cabinet Ministers with portfolios

New Delhi: The first cabinet meeting of the Uttar Pradesh government was held today at 5PM. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath kept Home Ministry with himself in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet. A

Updated: March 22, 2017 11:06 PM IST

By Surabhi Shaurya

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

New Delhi: The first cabinet meeting of the Uttar Pradesh government was held today at 5PM. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath kept Home Ministry with himself in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet. According to ANI, the Finance Portfolio has been given to Rajesh Agrawal, while other media houses suggested that the key ministry has been kept by Yogi Adityanath. Both deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma have been given PWD and High Education ministry respectively in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet. Mohsin Raza, the Muslim face of BJP government, was given Minority Affairs charge. Swati Singh has been given the Women Welfare department.

The party gave 14 ministerial positions to the caste group as they didn’t want to be seen to be ignoring their traditional vote bank–the Rajputs, Brahmins and Baniyas– as they have allocated a total of 23 ministerial berths to these caste groups. This includes 8 to Brahmins, 8 to Kayastha-vaishya, and 7 to Thakurs. These three communities have also got to the top positions. The Dalits have also got a massive representation as 6 leaders have been given ministerial status. Interestingly, out of 14 OBCs, only 1 is a Yadav. The ministers are from Maurya, Lodha, Rajbhar and Nishad castes. 2 Jats have also been inducted in the list of ministers. Giving befitting reply to opposition over ignoring minorities, the Bharatiya Janata Party also inducted lone Muslim face Mohsin Raza to the cabinet.

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Full List of Uttar Pradesh CM’s Yogi Adityanath’s Cabinet Ministers:

S.No.Name of ministersMinisterial RankMinistry
1.Yogi Adityanath Chief Minister Home, Revenue,  Housing and Urban  Planning, Food  Security, Mining, Flood  Control, Tax  Management, Jail,  General  Administration, State  Property,  Administrative Reform,  Consumer Protection
2.Keshav Prasad Maurya Deputy Chief Minister Public Works  Department, Food  Processing,  Entertainment Tax,  Public Labour  department (additional  responsibility)
3.Dinesh Sharma Deputy Chief Minister Secondary and Higher  Education, Science and  Technology,  Electronics, IT  department (additional  responsibility)
4.Rita Bahuguna Joshi Cabinet Minister Women Welfare,  Family Welfare,  Maternity and Child  Welfare, Tourism
5.Siddharth Nath Singh Cabinet Minister Health
6.Chetan Chauhan Cabinet Minister Sports
7.Shrikant Sharma Cabinet Minister Power
8.Swami Prasad Maurya Cabinet Minister Labour, Service  planning, Urban  employment and  Poverty alleviation
9.Satish Mahana Cabinet Minister Industrial development
10.Suresh Khanna Cabinet Minister Parliamentary Affairs,  Urban  development
11.Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary Cabinet Minister Dairy development,  Religious works and  culture, Minority  Welfare
12.SP Singh Baghel Cabinet Minister Livestock, Minor  Irrigation, Fishery
13.Rajesh Agrawal Cabinet Minister Finance
14.Dharmpal Singh Cabinet Minister Irrigation, Irrigation  (mechanical)
15.Ashutosh Tandon Cabinet Minister Basic Education,  Medical Education
16.Brijesh Pathak Cabinet Minister Law and Justice,  Additional Energy  Resources, Political  Pension
17.Mukut Bihari Verma Cabinet Minister Cooperative
18.Ramapati Shastri Cabinet Minister Social Welfare
19.Satyadev Pachauri Cabinet Minister Khadi, Rural industry,  Textiles, Small and  medium enterprises,  and exports
20.Jai Prakash Singh Cabinet Minister
21.Surya Pratap Shahi Cabinet Minister Agriculture
22.Dara Singh Chauhan Cabinet Minister Forest and  Environment, Zoos
23.Rajendra Pratap Singh Cabinet Minister
24.Nand Kumar Nandi Cabinet Minister Stamp and Court rates,  Civil Aviation
25.Girish Yadav Cabinet Minister Rehabilitation, urban development
26.Om Prakash Rajbhar Cabinet Minister Backward Classes  Welfare, Disabled  People development
27.Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary MoS (Independent) Panchayati raj
28.Dharam Singh Saini MoS (Independent) Ayush and rehabilitation
29.Suresh Rana MoS (Independent) Sugarcane and Sugar  Mills, Industrial  Development
30.Mahendra Singh MoS (Independent) Rural Development,  Samagra Rural  Development,  Healthcare
31.Swati Singh MoS (Independent) NRI, Flood Control,  Agriculture Import,  Agriculture Marketing,  Agriculture Foreign  Trade, Women Welfare,  Family Welfare,  Maternity and Child  Welfare
32.Anupama Jaiswal MoS (Independent)
33.Swatantra Dev Singh MoS (Independent) Transport, Protocol,  Energy
34.Upendra Tiwari MoS (Independent) Water compensation
35.Anil Rajbhar MoS (Independent) soldier welfare,
36.Suresh Pasi Minister of StateHousing, vocation education, skill
37.Jai Kumar Singh Jacky Minister of State Excise department,  Liquor prohibition
38.Neelkanth Tiwari Minister of State  law and justice, information and sports
39.Sangeeta Balwant Minister of State
40.Girish Yadav Minister of State Rehabilitation, urban development
41.Jay Prakash Nishad Minister of State
42.Gyanendra Singh Minister of State
43.Mannu Kori Minister of State labour service scheme
44.Ranvendra Pratap Singh Minister of State Agriculture; Neelkanth Tiwari – law and justice
45.Archana Pandey Minister of State  mining, excise and prohibition
46.Mohsin Raza Minister of State Minority Affairs,  Science, Electronics

The controversial mascot of hardline Hindutva, Yogi Adityanath sworn-in as 21st CM of Uttar Pradesh on March 19 at Kanshiram Smriti Upvan in Lucknow. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won over 300 seats out of 403 in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2017 whereas, the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance and Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party could not even manage to gain 100 seats.

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