UP CM Yogi Adityanath expands council of ministers | Here is the list

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday expanded his council of ministers with 23 ministers taking oath at the Raj Bhavan.

This is the first rejig of Adityanath's council of ministers since he came to power in 2017.

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Four ministers of state with independent charge were promoted as cabinet ministers, while two new faces, Ram Naresh Agnihotri and Kamla Rani Varun, joined as cabinet ministers.

The new expanded council has many prominent names such as Mahendra Singh, Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary, Ram Naresh Agnihotri, Suresh Rana, Anil Rajbhar, Kamla Rani were sworn in as cabinet ministers, while, Neil Kanth Tiwari, Kapil Dev Aggarwal, Satish Dwivedi, Ashok Kataria, Shriram Chauhan and Ravindra Jaiswal were made Ministers of State (Independent Charge).

Along with this, Anil Sharma, Mahesh Gupta, Anand Swaroop Shukla, Vijay Kashyap, Giraj Singh Dharmesh, Lakhan Singh Rajput, Neelima Katiyar, Chaudhary Uday Bhan Singh, Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay, Ramshankar Singh Patel and Ajit Singh Pal were sworn in as Ministers of State.

Six ministers of state with independent charge were inducted. The two-and-a-half year-old BJP ministry will also have 11 new ministers of state.

Here is the list:

These ministers furnished their resignations before taking oath

Finance Minister Rajesh Agarwal, Irrigation Minister Dharampal Singh, Minister of State for Basic Education (Independent Charge) Anupama Jaiswal and Minister of State for Mining, Excise, and Prohibition Archana Pandey submitted their resignations on Tuesday.

Dharmapala, Anupama and Archana were summoned by the state general ministers' organization Sunil Bansal at the BJP headquarters. BJP State President Swatantradev Singh had sent his resignation from the post of Transport Minister two days ago due to the principle of one person-one post.

Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath of office in the presence of the chief minister.

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