While the BJP retained Keshav Prasad Maurya as Yogi’s deputy despite his defeat, the prominent names – Ashutosh ‘Gopal’ Tandon, Mahendra Singh, Shrikant Sharma and Siddharth Nath Singh – was dropped. Other prominent faces in the ministry are AK Sharma, a former Gujarat-cadre IAS officer and PM Modi’s trusted bureaucrat, who has been appointed as a cabinet minister and Kanpur police commissioner, and Aseem Arun, a 1994-batch IPS officer, who is 14. One of the junior ministers. with free charge
The social structure of Yogi’s new ministry, sworn in at a mega event held at the sprawling Ekana stadium and attended by a saffron star cast led by PM Modi, reflected a bid to balance upper castes and non-Yadav backwards, who The BJP’s successful response to the Akhilesh Yadav-led challenge in the election formed the mainstay. Keshav Maurya’s continuance as deputy CM testifies to his credentials as the party’s OBC face, while Pathak’s appointment as another deputy is a major step in a recent import from the BSP, which has now replaced the old Brahmin faces. has been thrown out of the fold.
Like last time, the ministry consisted of only five women, including the party’s prominent Jatav face and former Uttarakhand governor Baby Rani Maurya. However, it is possible that more women may be included later as in the previous. Yogi has room to add at least eight more ministerial colleagues.
Both the allies of BJP, Apna Dal and Nishad Party have got representation along with Ashish and wife of Union Minister Anupriya Patel. Sanjay Nishad Getting cabinet berths. In place of Shia Mohsin Raja, BJP has made former ABVP functionary Danish Azad Ansari a Sunni.
The other women minister is Gulab Devi, a five-time MLA from Sambhal district. Pratibha Shukla, Rajni TiwariAnd Vijay Lakshmi Gautam.
“I, Adityanath Yogi…,” was the CM’s deep voice from loudspeakers at the Ekana Stadium, which had flowers, cutouts and posters of PM Modi, Union Minister Amit Shah, BJP President JP Nadda and Yogi himself. Applause from around 70,000 party workers gathered.
PM Modi, Shah, Nadda and many senior party functionaries watched with satisfaction. Other high-profile dignitaries who attended the ceremony included chief ministers of 11 other BJP-ruled states, industrialists, film stars and religious leaders of various sects and monasteries.
It was a historic moment for Gorakshpeeth’s Pithadheshwar Yogi, as he took oath as CM, becoming the only political figure in UP to return to office after a five-year term. First only Govind Vallabh Pant (1952), Dr. Sampoornanand (1957), Chandra Bhanu Gupta (1962), Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna (1974) and Narayan Dutt Tiwari (1985) re-elected as CMs of UP, but their tenure was only for two years. walked.
Born on 5 June 1972 in Panchur village (Uttarakhand) of Pauri Garhwal, Ajay Singh Bisht renounced worldly life before turning to spirituality in the early 1990s. His record in the UP Legislative Assembly shows that he succeeded the Gorakshapeeth on February 15, 1994, at the young age of 22, and became the head priest after the death of his guru Mahant Avaidyanath in September 2014.