Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on friday. (Express photo by Vishal Srivastav) Yogi Adityanath took oath on Friday evening for a second straight term as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh before a massive gathering in Lucknow of around 50,000 people, which included Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief ministers of NDA-ruled states.
Apart from Adityanath, the oath of office was administered by Governor Anandiben Patel at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium, which was packed with BJP workers, to deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brijesh Pathak, and 50 Ministers, including 16 Cabinet Ministers.
The new faces included A K Sharma, a retired IAS officer from the Gujarat cadre, and Rakesh Sachan, who had recently joined the party.
PM Shri @narendramodi attends oath-taking ceremony of UP CM @myogiadityanath in Lucknow. https://t.co/etf5UWJ0dS
— BJP (@BJP4India) March 25, 2022
Former Union Minister and ex-Congress leader Jitin Prasada, who had joined the BJP and was inducted in the Cabinet just before the polls, has been given a Cabinet berth in the new government.
Former ABVP leader Danish Azad Ansari, who was appointed as general secretary of the party’s minorities cell just before the polls, is the only Muslim face in the government. He replaced Mohsin Raza, who was the sole representative of the community in the previous government.
Pathak replaced Dinesh Sharma as Deputy Chief Minister — both hail from the Brahmin community.
Other prominent names from the previous regime to miss out were spokespersons Srikant Sharma and Sidhartha Nath Singh, and Industries Minister Satish Mahana.
The government has one berth each for alliance partners Apna Dal and Nishad Party: Ashish Patel, husband of Union Minister and Apna Dal leader Anupriya Patel, and Nishad Party chief Sanjay Nishad.
Out of five women leaders given space, three are Dalit leaders — former Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya is the only Cabinet minister from this group.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, meanwhile, expressed confidence that the Yogi Adityanath-led government in its fresh term will write another new chapter of progress in Uttar Pradesh while fulfilling people’s aspirations.
उत्तर प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री पद की शपथ लेने पर @myogiadityanath जी और उनके मंत्रिमंडल को हार्दिक बधाई। पिछले 5 वर्षों में राज्य की विकास यात्रा ने कई अहम पड़ाव तय किए हैं। मुझे विश्वास है कि आपके नेतृत्व में प्रदेश जन आकांक्षाओं को पूरा करते हुए प्रगति का एक और नया अध्याय लिखेगा। pic.twitter.com/b3hcLMQsMJ
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 25, 2022
Congratulating Adityanath and his ministerial colleagues on taking oath, Modi said the state’s development journey marked several important milestones in his government’s first five years.
-With PTI inputs
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