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UP Cabinet 2017: Full List of UP CM's Yogi Adityanath's Cabinet Ministers with portfolios

New Delhi: The first cabinet meeting of the Uttar Pradesh government was held today at 5PM. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath kept Home Ministry with himself in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet. According to ANI, the Finance Portfolio has been given to Rajesh Agrawal, while other media houses suggested that the key ministry has been kept by Yogi Adityanath. Both deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma have been given PWD and High Education ministry respectively in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet. Mohsin Raza, the Muslim face of BJP government, was given Minority Affairs charge. Swati Singh has been given the Women Welfare department. - UP Cabinet 2017: Full List of UP CM's Yogi Adityanath's Cabinet Ministers with portfolios.

New Delhi: The first cabinet meeting of the Uttar Pradesh government was held today at 5PM. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath kept Home Ministry with himself in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet. According to ANI, the Finance Portfolio has been given to Rajesh Agrawal, while other media houses suggested that the key ministry has been kept by Yogi Adityanath. Both deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma have been given PWD and High Education ministry respectively in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet.

The party gave 14 ministerial positions to the caste group as they didn t want to be seen to be ignoring their traditional vote bank the Rajputs, Brahmins and Baniyas as they have allocated a total of 23 ministerial berths to these caste groups. This includes 8 to Brahmins, 8 to Kayastha-vaishya, and 7 to Thakurs. These three communities have also got to the top positions. The Dalits have also got a massive representation as 6 leaders have been given ministerial status. Interestingly, out of 14 OBCs, only 1 is a Yadav. The ministers are from Maurya, Lodha, Rajbhar and Nishad castes. 2 Jats have also been inducted in the list of ministers. Giving befitting reply to opposition over ignoring minorities, the Bharatiya Janata Party also inducted lone Muslim face Mohsin Raza to the cabinet.

Full List of Uttar Pradesh CM's Yogi Adityanath's Cabinet Ministers:

S.No.	Name of ministers	Ministerial Rank	Ministry
1.	Yogi Adityanath	Chief Minister	Home, Revenue, Housing and Urban Planning, Food Security, Mining, Flood Control, Tax Management, Jail, General Administration, State Property, Administrative Reform, Consumer Protection
2.	Keshav Prasad Maurya	Deputy Chief Minister	Public Works Department, Food Processing, Entertainment Tax, Public Labour department (additional responsibility)
3.	Dinesh Sharma	Deputy Chief Minister	Secondary and Higher Education, Science and Technology, Electronics, IT department (additional responsibility)
4.	Rita Bahuguna Joshi	Cabinet Minister	Women Welfare, Family Welfare, Maternity and Child Welfare, Tourism
5.	Siddharth Nath Singh	Cabinet Minister	Health
6.	Chetan Chauhan	Cabinet Minister	Sports
7.	Shrikant Sharma	Cabinet Minister	Power
8.	Swami Prasad Maurya	Cabinet Minister	Labour, Service planning, Urban employment and Poverty alleviation
9.	Satish Mahana	Cabinet Minister	Industrial development
10.	Suresh Khanna	Cabinet Minister	Parliamentary Affairs, Urban development
11.	Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary	Cabinet Minister	Dairy development, Religious works and culture, Minority Welfare
12.	SP Singh Baghel	Cabinet Minister	Livestock, Minor Irrigation, Fishery
13.	Rajesh Agrawal	Cabinet Minister	Finance
14.	Dharmpal Singh	Cabinet Minister	Irrigation, Irrigation (mechanical)
15.	Ashutosh Tandon	Cabinet Minister	Basic Education, Medical Education
16.	Brijesh Pathak	Cabinet Minister	Law and Justice, Additional Energy Resources, Political Pension
17.	Mukut Bihari Verma	Cabinet Minister	Cooperative
18.	Ramapati Shastri	Cabinet Minister	Social Welfare
19.	Satyadev Pachauri	Cabinet Minister	Khadi, Rural industry, Textiles, Small and medium enterprises, and exports
20.	Jai Prakash Singh	Cabinet Minister
21.	Surya Pratap Shahi	Cabinet Minister	Agriculture
22.	Dara Singh Chauhan	Cabinet Minister	Forest and Environment, Zoos
23.	Rajendra Pratap Singh	Cabinet Minister
24.	Nand Kumar Nandi	Cabinet Minister	Stamp and Court rates, Civil Aviation
25.	Girish Yadav	Cabinet Minister	Rehabilitation, urban development
26.	Om Prakash Rajbhar	Cabinet Minister	Backward Classes Welfare, Disabled People development
27.	Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary	MoS (Independent)	Panchayati raj
28.	Dharam Singh Saini	MoS (Independent)	Ayush and rehabilitation
29.	Suresh Rana	MoS (Independent)	Sugarcane and Sugar Mills, Industrial Development
30.	Mahendra Singh	MoS (Independent)	Rural Development, Samagra Rural Development, Healthcare
31.	Swati Singh	MoS (Independent)	NRI, Flood Control, Agriculture Import, Agriculture Marketing, Agriculture Foreign Trade, Women Welfare, Family Welfare, Maternity and Child Welfare
32.	Anupama Jaiswal	MoS (Independent)
33.	Swatantra Dev Singh	MoS (Independent)	Transport, Protocol, Energy
34.	Upendra Tiwari	MoS (Independent)	Water compensation
35.	Anil Rajbhar	MoS (Independent)	soldier welfare,
36.	Suresh Pasi	Minister of State	Housing, vocation education, skill
37.	Jai Kumar Singh Jacky	Minister of State	Excise department, Liquor prohibition
38.	Neelkanth Tiwari	Minister of State	law and justice, information and sports
39.	Sangeeta Balwant	Minister of State
40.	Girish Yadav	Minister of State	Rehabilitation, urban development
41.	Jay Prakash Nishad	Minister of State
42.	Gyanendra Singh	Minister of State
43.	Mannu Kori	Minister of State	labour service scheme
44.	Ranvendra Pratap Singh	Minister of State	Agriculture; Neelkanth Tiwari - law and justice
45.	Archana Pandey	Minister of State	mining, excise and prohibition
46.	Mohsin Raza	Minister of State	Minority Affairs, Science, Electronics

The controversial mascot of hardline Hindutva, Yogi Adityanath sworn-in as 21^st CM of Uttar Pradesh on March 19 at Kanshiram Smriti Upvan in Lucknow. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won over 300 seats out of 403 in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2017 whereas, the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance and Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party could not even manage to gain 100 seats.