UP portfolios Adityanath keeps Home Khanna gets Finance Ministry
Lucknow Mar 28 PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday allocated portfolios in his 53-member ministry keeping the departments of Home Vigilance and Personnel with him Altogether 34 departments remain with him Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has been allocated six departments — Rural Development Rural Engineering Food Processing Entertainment Tax Public Enterprise and National Integration The Public Works Department which Maurya headed in the previous ministry has been given to Jitin Prasada this time In addition to the chief minister a total 52 ministers of different ranks were administered oath on March 25 here All of them were distributed responsibilities on Monday According to the list of portfolios released here another Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak will head Medical Education Medical and Health and Family Welfare departments Cabinet Minister Suresh Khanna will continue to look after Finance and Parliamentary Affairs departments like in the previous ministry while Surya Pratap Shahi was given Agriculture Agriculture Education and research departments State BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh who has been inducted in the Adityanath 20 government got Jal Shakti and Flood Control Baby Rani Maruya got women welfare and Child Development departments IAS-turned-politician Arvind Kumar Sharma a confidante of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been given Urban Development Energy among five departments Among allies while Nishad Party president Sanjay Nishad got Fisheries the Apna Dal Sonelal leader Ashish Patel was given Technical Education department Among Ministers of State MoS with independent charge former IPS officer Asim Arun will head Social welfare SCST welfare departments Among other MoS independent charge Sandip Singh grandson of BJP veteran Kalyan Singh will take care of Basic Education while Daya Shankar Singh gets Transport Danish Azad Ansari the lone muslim minister in the MoS rank has been allocated Minorities Welfare besides Waqf and Haj departments The only sikh minister of the same MOS rank Baldev Singh Aulakh got Agriculture and Agriculture Education According to constitutional provisions there can be a maximum of 60 ministers in Uttar Pradesh including the chief minister PTI ABN SNS CK
Lucknow Mar 28 PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday allocated portfolios in his 53-member ministry keeping the departments of Home Vigilance and Personnel with him Altogether 34 departments remain with him Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has been allocated six departments — Rural Development Rural Engineering Food Processing Entertainment Tax Public Enterprise and National Integration The Public Works Department which Maurya headed in the previous ministry has been given to Jitin Prasada this time In addition to the chief minister a total 52 ministers of different ranks were administered oath on March 25 here All of them were distributed responsibilities on Monday According to the list of portfolios released here another Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak will head Medical Education Medical and Health and Family Welfare departments Cabinet Minister Suresh Khanna will continue to look after Finance and Parliamentary Affairs departments like in the previous ministry while Surya Pratap Shahi was given Agriculture Agriculture Education and research departments State BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh who has been inducted in the Adityanath 20 government got Jal Shakti and Flood Control Baby Rani Maruya got women welfare and Child Development departments IAS-turned-politician Arvind Kumar Sharma a confidante of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been given Urban Development Energy among five departments Among allies while Nishad Party president Sanjay Nishad got Fisheries the Apna Dal Sonelal leader Ashish Patel was given Technical Education department Among Ministers of State MoS with independent charge former IPS officer Asim Arun will head Social welfare SCST welfare departments Among other MoS independent charge Sandip Singh grandson of BJP veteran Kalyan Singh will take care of Basic Education while Daya Shankar Singh gets Transport Danish Azad Ansari the lone muslim minister in the MoS rank has been allocated Minorities Welfare besides Waqf and Haj departments The only sikh minister of the same MOS rank Baldev Singh Aulakh got Agriculture and Agriculture Education According to constitutional provisions there can be a maximum of 60 ministers in Uttar Pradesh including the chief minister PTI ABN SNS CK
