Lucknow, March 22: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajesh Aggarwal, a six-time MLA from Bareilly Cantt, has been given to handle a crucial portfolio of Finance, in Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet. The decision of allotting 46 crucial portfolios for BJP leader has been taken by the Yogi Adityanath and his team was finally made public on Wednesday and the official list of ministers has been submitted to state Governor Ram Naik.
Top brass leadership in BJP have already held high expectations from Rajesh Aggarwal, who was also responsible for party’s victory in Bareilly district, where the BJP had won nine out of 9 seats.
Soon after BJP marked landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections by winning 312 seats, all eyes were stunned by Bareilly results where the party was able to raise saffron flag high in the air. Rajesh Aggarwal, who has been elected six times consecutively from Bareilly Cannt is also close to top leaders of Sangh Pariwar. In 2002, when BJP government was in power in Uttar Pradesh, Rajesh Aggarwal was elected as a minister of state by Rajnath Singh government and also played a role of Deputy Chairman of Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
After BJP’s victory in Uttar Pradesh, there were rumours that Rajesh Aggarwal might be given portfolio of Law Ministry but looking at his prior experience he was today allocated the crucial Finance portfolio. Also Read – UP Cabinet 2017: Yogi Adityanath keeps Home; Keshav Prasad Maurya gets PWD; Dinesh Sharma given higher education ministry
Apart from Rajesh Aggarwal, Yogi Adityanath’s two deputy chief ministers, – Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinseh Sharma – have been allocated some crucial portfolios. Keshav Prasad Maurya has been given public works department, food processing, entertainment tax and public enterprises department and public enterprises, whereas Dinesh Sharma has been given higher and secondary education, science and technology, electronics and Information Technology portfolio.
Also, on the other hand, Swami Prasad Maurya has been allocated cooperative ministry, Siddharth Nath Sigh – health, Chetan Chauhan – sports, Suresh Khanna – parliamentary affairs, Surya Pratap Shahi – agriculture, Swati Singh – Women and Child Development, Shrikant Sharma – Power, Jai Prakash – Excise and Mohsin Raza the lone BJP Muslim face has been given Minority Affairs Ministry.
| S.No. | Name of ministers | Ministerial Rank | Ministry |
| 1. | Yogi Adityanath | Chief Minister | Home |
| 2. | Keshav Prasad Maurya | Deputy Chief Minister | PWD, Food Processing, Entertainment Tax, Public Enterprises Department |
| 3. | Dinesh Sharma | Deputy Chief Minister | Higher Education |
| 4. | Rita Bahuguna Joshi | Cabinet Minister | Child Development |
| 5. | Siddharth Nath Singh | Cabinet Minister | Health |
| 6. | Chetan Chauhan | Cabinet Minister | |
| 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 |
| 12. | SP Singh Baghel | Cabinet Minister | |
| 13. | Rajesh Agrawal | Cabinet Minister | Finance |
| 14. | Dharmpal Singh | Cabinet Minister | Irrigation |
| 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 | |
| 26. | Om Prakash Rajbhar | Cabinet Minister | Backward Classes Welfare, Disabled People development |
| 27. | Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary | MoS (Independent) | |
| 28. | Dharam Singh Saini | MoS (Independent) | |
| 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) | |
| 36. | Suresh Pasi | Minister of State | |
| 37. | Jai Kumar Singh Jacky | Minister of State | Excise department, Liquor prohibition |
| 38. | Neelkanth Tiwari | Minister of State | |
| 39. | Sangeeta Balwant | Minister of State | |
| 40. | Girish Yadav | Minister of State | |
| 41. | Jay Prakash Nishad | Minister of State | |
| 42. | Gyanendra Singh | Minister of State | |
| 43. | Mannu Kori | Minister of State | |
| 44. | Ranvendra Pratap Singh | Minister of State | |
| 45. | Archana Pandey | Minister of State | |
| 46. | Mohsin Raza | Minister of State | Minority Affairs, Science, Electronics |
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