The PWD has gone to Congress import Jitin Prasada, while another newcomer, former IAS officer and former PMO officer AK Sharma, has been given urban development and power, two important portfolios whose performance is crucial to the BJP’s performance in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. will be important. state.
Maurya has been given six departments – Rural Development, Rural Engineering, Food Processing, Entertainment Tax, Public Enterprises and National Integration. However, the loss of the PWD, arguably the most coveted department after the house, would dampen the satisfaction enjoyed by retaining the post of deputy CM despite losing to Sirathu.
Ditto for the reader. The number two position may have given the tall man of Lucknow Cantt an edge and his army of supporters, but the portfolios he has been given may seem weak. However, he has been given full charge of health, family welfare and medical education. In the previous Yogi government, there were two ministers handling health and medical education separately.
The two portfolios given to AK Sharma were also handled by two ministers Ashutosh Tandon and Shrikant Sharma in the previous government. This time both have been kicked out. Sharma, who hails from Mau district, had opted for VRS two years before retirement to become BJP MLC in 2021 and was waiting to get a ministerial post.
Prasad, who joined the BJP last year after leaving the Congress, was allotted technical education in the last few months of the previous Yogi government. This time the allocation of PWD department to him is being seen as a promotion.
The 34 departments that Yogi has kept with him include Home, Recruitment, Personnel, Information, Housing and Town Planning, Administrative Reforms and Planning. When he took over as CM in 2017, Yogi had 36 departments. In subsequent reshuffles this number was reduced.
Among other senior ministers, Suresh Khanna has retained finance and parliamentary affairs, while SP Shahi has retained agriculture and agricultural education and research.
In another surprise, BJP’s state chief and now cabinet minister Swatantra Dev Singh has been given seven portfolios, including Jal Shakti and Namami Gange. He has the highest number of portfolios after CM. These departments were earlier with Mahendra Singh, which has been removed.
lone woman cabinet minister Yogi Cabinet 2.0, Baby Rani Maurya, who was the governor of Uttarakhand, has been allocated women’s welfare and child development and nutrition.
Another veteran minister, Lakshmi Narayan Choudhary, has been given important portfolios of sugarcane development and sugar mills, along with Suresh Rana in the previous Yogi government. Rana lost the election from Thana Bhawan.
Newly entrant Jaiveer Singh has been given tourism and culture, while Dharampal Singh, who was the irrigation minister in the first two years of the previous Yogi government, has also been given six portfolios- animal husbandry, dairy development, minority welfare, Muslim waqf and civil. . Defense.
In Yogi Sarkar 1.0, Civil Aviation and Stamp and Registrant Nand Gopal Nandi has been allotted important industrial development, export promotion, NRI and investment promotion departments.
Like Khanna and Shahi, Bhupendra Choudhary has also retained his ministry of Panchayati Raj. Varanasi MLA Anil Rajbhar has been given labor while Rakesh Sachan has been given MSME and Khadi, which were with Siddharth Nath Singh, who have also been dropped.
Higher education, information technology and science and technology have been allocated Yogendra UpadhyayMLA from Agra.
Among the BJP’s alliance partners, Ashish Patel of Apna Dal (S) has been given technical education and Nishad Party chief Dr. Sanjay Nishad has been allotted the newly created fisheries department.
The excise department has been given to Nitin Agarwal, a junior minister with independent charge, who had also switched loyalties from the SP to the BJP during the previous Yogi government.
The secondary education department has been given to Gulab Devi, who has been promoted as Minister of State (Independent Charge), while basic education has been given to Sandeep Singh, the grandson of late Kalyan Singh.
Sports and youth welfare department has been given to Girish Chandra Yadav while Dharamveer Prajapati has been given prison department. Another new entrant Dayashankar Singh has been allotted the Transport Department, while JPS Rathore has been given the Cooperation Department.
Former IPS officer Aseem Arun, who is MoS (Independent Charge), has been given Social Welfare Department, while Dr Arun Saxena has been allotted Forests, Dinesh Pratap Singh Horticulture, Narendra Kashyap Backward Welfare and Dayashankar Mishra “Dayalu” Ayush Department Is.
Twenty junior ministers have been added from different departments headed by cabinet ministers.