Yogi Adityanath was on Friday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for a second term at a ceremony where 52 others took oath as ministers and Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the oath of office in the crucial proceedings showcasing the BJP’s victory in the state. saw.
Danish Azad Ansari has been made Minister of State. He is the only Muslim face in the country Adityanath Sarkar,
Azad, who hails from Ballia, has replaced Mohsin Raza as the minority community’s representative in the Adityanath 2.0 government. He is currently not a member of the State Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council.
Danish Ansari, 32, joined the ABVP when he was a student at Lucknow University, from where he did his graduation. Ansari has completed his schooling from Holy Cross School, Ballia.
Danish Ansari is the general secretary of the minority cell of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh.
Besides Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, 18 cabinet ministers – including two deputy CMs – 14 ministers of state (independent charge) and 20 other ministers of state were administered oath by Governor Anandiben Patel.
In the previous ministry, nine cabinet-level ministers were dropped, including deputy CM Dinesh Sharma.
Of the nine ministers of state with independent charge in 2017, only two have been retained. But this time there are 14 ministers in this category.
Of the 52 ministers, 21 – excluding the chief minister – are from upper castes, seven of them Brahmins.
Twenty are from the Other Backward Classes (OBC), nine are Dalits and one from the Muslim and Sikh communities, as the BJP tries to achieve a caste balance that will help in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The BJP retained power in Uttar Pradesh, winning 255 of the 403 constituencies and securing a vote share of 41.29 percent.
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