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Lucknow, March 25
Yogi Adityanath on Friday took oath as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for his second consecutive term.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and several Union Ministers besides Chief Ministers of BJP and ally-ruled states were present when Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath of office and secrecy to Yogi Adityanath in a jam-packed Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium having a crowd of more than 50,000 in attendance.
After being elected as the leader of the BJP legislative party, Adityanath on Thursday met Governor Anandiben Patel and staked a claim to form the government in the state where BJP made recorded a historic win. The monk-turned politician will take the reins of the most populous state for a second time—a government repeating in the state after 37 years.
Senior BJP leader Keshav Prasad Maurya took oath as Deputy CM of Uttar Pradesh. Brajesh Pathak, an MLA from Lucknow Cantonment and also former Minister of Legislative, Justice, Rural Engineering, also took oath as Deputy CM of the state.
The other BJP leaders who took oath on Friday were Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary, Jaivir Singh, Dharam Pal Singh, Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’, Arvind Kumar Sharma, Yogendra Upadhyaya.
BJP ally Ashish Patel, the husband of Union Minister Anupriya Patel, Nishad party’s Sanjay Nishad take oath as cabinet ministers in UP. BJP leader Jitin Prasada, who quit the Congress party recently, also took an oath as minister in the Uttar Pradesh government.
Along with Yogi Adityanath, a total of 16 Cabinet ministers, 14 Ministers of State (Independent Charge), and 20 Ministers of State also took the oath on Friday. The Chief Minister has option to accommodate 10 more ministers.
According to provisions of the Constitution, under the tenth schedule, the strength of the Uttar Pradesh cabinet including the Chief Minister could be 60—15 per cent of the total 403 assembly seats in the state.
List of Yogi Adityanath Cabinet:
