UP Cabinet Expansion: Jitin Prasada, 6 others inducted – check full list of new ministers in Yogi Cabinet and their portfolios

Attempting to balance caste equations and regional aspirations, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expanded his ministry on Sunday evening, months ahead of the crucial assembly polls. The cabinet expansion saw the induction of seven new faces including Jitin Prasad, a prominent Brahmin face who switched sides from the Congress to the BJP just few months back.

While Prasada took oath as the Cabinet minister, six others – Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar, Paltu Ram, Sangeeta Balwant, Sanjeev Kumar Gaur, Dinesh Khatik, and Dharmaveer Singh – were sworn in as the ministers of state. The portfolios, however, are yet to announced.

Paltu Ram, from Schedule Caste Community, will be MoS from Balrampur, Chhatarpal Gangwar from Kurmi, Barrielly; Sangeeta Balwant Bind from Bind, Ghazipur; Dharamveer Prajapati from Agra, Sanjeev Kumar Gond, an ST, from Sonbhadra, and Dinesh Khatik, an SC, from Meerut.

Here is the full list of ministers in Yogi Adityanath Cabinet and their portfolios:

Cabinet Ministers

1. Yogi Adityanath – Chief Minister – Home, Housing and Urban Planning, Revenue, Food and Civil Supplies, Food Safety and Drug Administration, Economics and Statistics, Geology and Mining, Tax Registration, Jail, General Administration, Secretariat Administration, Confidential, Vigilance, Appointment, Personnel, Information, Election, Institutional Finance, Planning, State Property, Town Land, Uttar Pradesh Restructuring Coordination, Administrative Reform, Program Implementation, National Integration, Infrastructure,  Language, External Aided Project, Scarcity, Relief and Rehabilitation, Public service Management , Rent Control, Consumer Protection, Weights and Measures, Protocol, Technical Education, Sainik Welfare, Home Guard, P.R.D, Civil Defence
2. Keshav Prasad Maurya – Deputy Chief Minister – Public Works Department, Food Processing,Entertainment Tax, Public Enterprises
3. Dr Dinesh Sharma – Deputy Chief Minister – Secondary Education and Higher Education, Science and Technology, Electronics, Information Technology
4. Surya Pratap Shahi – Agriculture, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Research
5. Suresh Kumar Khanna – Finance, Parliamentary Affairs, Medical Education
6. Swami Prasad Maurya – Labour, Employment, Coordination
7. Satish Mahana – Industrial Development
8. Dara Singh Chauhan – Forest, Environment, Zoological Garden
9. Ramapati Shastri – Social Welfare, Scheduled Castes and Tribal Welfare
10. Jai Pratap Singh – Medical and Health, Family Welfare, Mother and Child Welfare
11. Brijesh Pathak – Legislative, Justice, Rural Engineering Service
12. Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary – Dairy Development, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries
13. Shrikant Sharma – Energy, Additional Sources Of Energy
14. Rajendra Pratap Singh (Moti Singh) – Rural Development, Overall Village Development
15. Sidharth Nath Singh – Khadi and Villages Industries, Sericulture Industries, Handloom and Textile, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise, Export Promotion, NRI, Investment Promotion
16. Mukut Bihari Verma – Cooperative
17. Ashutosh Tandon – Urban Development, Overall Urban Development, Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation
18. Nand Gopal Gupta “Nandi” – Civil Aviation, Political Pension, Minority Welfare, Muslim Waqf and Haj
19. Dr Mahendra Singh – Jal Shakti, Flood Control
20. Suresh Rana – Sugarcane Development, Sugar Mills
21. Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary – Panchayati Raj
22. Anil Rajbhar – Backward Class Welfare, Divyangjan Empowerment
23. Shriram Naresh Agnihotri – Excise, Prohibition
24. Jitin Prasada – TBA

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

1. Upendra Tiwari – Sports, Youth Welfare, Panchayati Raj (MOS)
2. Dharam Singh Saini – Ayush, Food Security and Drug Administration (MOS)
3. Swati Singh – Women’s Welfare, Child Development & Nutrition (MOS)
4. Neelkanth Tiwari – Tourism, Culture, Religious Affairs, Protocol (MOS)
5. Kapil Dev Agarwal – Vocational Education, Skill Development
6. Satish Chandra Dwivedi – Basic Education
7. Ashok Kataria – Transport, Parliamentary Affairs (MOS)
8. Sriram Chauhan – Horticulture, Agricultural Exports, Agricultural Marketing, Agricultural Foreign Trade
9. Ravindra Jaiswal – Stamp and Court Fee, Registration

Ministers of State

1. Gulab Devi – Secondary Education
2. Jai Pratap Nishad – Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairy Development
3. Jai Kumar Singh Jackie – Jail, Public Service Management
4. Atul Garg – Medical and Health, Family Welfare, Mother and Child Welfare
5. Ranvendra Pratap Singh (Dhuni Singh) – Food & Civil Supplies
6. Mohsin Raza – Minority Welfare, Muslim Waqf, Haj
7. Girish Chandra Yadav – Housing and Urban Planning
8. Baldev Olakh – Jal Shakti
9. Manoharlal Mannu Kori – Labor, Employment
10. Sandeep Singh – Finance, Technical Education, Medical Education
11. Suresh Kumar alias Suresh Pasi – Sugarcane Development, Sugar Mills
12. Anil Sharma – Forest, Environment, Zoological Garden
13. Mahesh Chandra Gupta – Urban Development, Overall Urban Development, Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation
14. Anand Swaroop Shukla – Parliamentary Affairs, Rural Development, Overall Village Development
15. G S Dharmesh – Social Welfare, Scheduled Castes and Tribal Welfare
16. Lakhan Singh Rajput – Agriculture, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Research
17. Neelima Katiyar – Higher Education, Science and Technology
18. Chaudhary Udaybhan Singh – Khadi and Villages Industries, Sericulture Industries, Textile, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise, Export Promotion
19. Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay – Public Works
20. Rama Shankar Singh Patel – Energy, Additional Sources of Energy
21. Ajit Singh Pal – Electronics, Information Technology
22. Paltu Ram – TBA
23. Chhatarpal Gangwar – TBA
24. Sangeeta Balwant – TBA
25. Sanjeev Kumar Gaur – TBA
26. Dinesh Khatik – TBA
27. Dharmaveer Singh – TBA