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Vibha Sharma
New Delhi, March 28
Three days after he took the oath because the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath on Monday distributed portfolios to the newly-inducted ministers in his Cabinet, holding the all-important Home Ministry with himself.
Vigilance and Personnel are among the many 25 departments he has stored with himself.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak will head Medical Education/Health/Family Welfare and his counterpart Rural Development and Food Processing, amongst others.
Maurya held the all-important PWD portfolio within the earlier regime, which has now gone to Jitin Prasad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “confidante” AK Sharma has bought Urban Development and Adityanath’s proper hand man, state BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh Water Resources.
Senior chief Suresh Kumar Khanna has been given the cost of key Finance and Parliamentary Affairs portfolios. Agriculture has gone to senior chief Surya Pratap Shahi and Women and Child Development to Baby Rani Maurya.
Adityanath’s council consists of 52 ministers.
As per the official launch, the Chief Minister has retained Home, Vigilance, Revenue, General Administration, Information, Institutional Finance, Mining, Food Security, civil aviation, legislation, amongst others.
Chaudhary Laxmi Narain has been given cost of Cane Development, Dharampal Singh Dairy Development, Jaiveer Singh Tourism and Nand Gopal Nandi Industrial Development.
Sanjay Nishad has been allotted Fisheries, Asheesh Patel Technical Education and Nitin Agarwal Excise. Aseem Arun, a former IPS officer, has been given Social Welfare, Daya Shankar Singh Transport and Danish Azad, the lone Muslim minister, Minority Welfare.
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