Lucknow, March 25: In the newly formed Yogi Adityanath government of Uttar Pradesh, 52 ministers including two deputy chief ministers have got a place. 18 cabinet ministers including Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak have been made. Maurya and Pathak have been made deputy chief ministers.
Similarly, 14 faces like Dayashankar Singh, former IPS Asim Arun and Nitin Agarwal have been made ministers of state (independent charge). At the same time 20 ministers of state have also been included. Thus the size of the Council of Ministers is 53 members including the Chief Minister and 52 ministers.
Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak have been made Deputy Chief Ministers in the Yogi Council of Ministers. Surya Pratap Shahi, Suresh Kumar Khanna, BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh, former Uttarakhand governor Baby Rani Maurya have been made cabinet ministers. Baby Rani Maurya was being speculated to become the Deputy Chief Minister. Lakshmi Narayan Chaudhary has once again succeeded in becoming a minister from Mathura.
Likewise, Dharampal Singh, who was removed from the post of minister in the expansion of the council of ministers of Yogi-1 government, has been made a minister in this government. Jaiveer Singh, Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi, Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary, Anil Rajbhar, Jitin Prasad, Rakesh Sachan have also become ministers. Along with MLC Arvind Kumar Sharma, Yogendra Upadhyay, Ashish Patel from ally Apna Dal S and Sanjay Nishad from Nishad Party have been made ministers.
In the Yogi-II government, 14 ministers of state (independent charge) have been made. In this, Nitin Agarwal, son of Naresh Agarwal, who left the SP and joined the BJP, has been made Minister of State (Independent Charge). Kapil Dev Agarwal and Ravindra Jaiswal have been made Ministers of State with independent charge again. Kalyan Singh’s grandson Sandeep Singh has been promoted as Minister of State with independent charge. Gulab Devi, Girish Chandra Yadav, Dharamveer Prajapati have once again been successful in making the place.
Also, Asim Arun, who became MLA after resigning from the job of IPS and contesting from Kannauj, has also been made Minister of State with independent charge. BJP State General Secretary JPS Rathore has been gifted for working in the organization for a long time. He has been made Minister of State with independent charge. Dayashankar Singh, who was surrounded by family disputes, has become the Minister of State with independent charge. Narendra Kashyap, Dinesh Pratap Singh, Arun Kumar Saxena and Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu were also made ministers of state with independent charge.
Apart from this, Mayank Ishwar Singh, Dinesh Khatik, Sanjeev Gond, Baldev Singh Olakh, Ajit Pal, Jaswant Saini, Ramkesh Nishad, Manohar Lal Mannu Kori, Sanjay Gangwar, Brijesh Singh, KP Malik, Suresh Rahi, Somendra Tomar, Anoop Pradhan Valmiki, Pratibha Shukla, Rakesh Rathore Guru, Rajni Tiwari, Satish Sharma, Danish Azad Ansari and Vijay Laxmi Gautam have been made ministers of state. All these ministers took oath of office and secrecy along with Chief Minister Adityanath.
List of new ministers
Cabinet Ministers- Keshav Prasad Maurya (Deputy Chief Minister), Brajesh Pathak (Deputy Chief Minister), Surya Pratap Shahi, Suresh Kumar Khanna, Swatantra Dev Singh, Baby Rani Maurya, Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary, Jaiveer Singh, Dharampal Singh, Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi, Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary, Anil Rajbhar, Jitin Prasad, Rakesh Sachan, Arvind Kumar Sharma, Yogendra Upadhyay, Ashish Patel, Sanjay Nishad.
Ministers of State (Independent Charge) – Nitin Agarwal, Kapil Dev Agarwal, Ravindra Jaiswal, Sandeep Singh, Gulab Devi, Girish Chandra Yadav, Dharamvir Prajapati, Aseem Arun, JPS Rathore, Dayashankar Singh, Narendra Kashyap, Dinesh Pratap Singh, Arun Kumar Saxena, Dayashankar Misra Merciful.
Minister of State β Mayankeshwar Singh, Dinesh Khatik, Sanjeev Gaur, Baldev Singh Olakh, Ajit Pal, Jaswant Saini, Ramkesh Nishad, Manohar Lal Mannu Kori, Sanjay Gangwar, Brijesh Singh, KP Malik, Suresh Rahi, Somendra Tomar, Anoop Pradhan, Pratibha Shukla, Rakesh Rathore, Rajni Tiwari, Satish Sharma, Danish Azad Ansari and Vijay Lakshmi Gautam.
