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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
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.
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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.
Full List of Uttar Pradesh CM’s Yogi Adityanath’s Cabinet Ministers:
S.No. | Name of ministers | Ministerial Rank | Ministry |
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 State | Housing, 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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