Yogi Adityanath, one of the most controversial Hindu nationalist politicians in the county, took oath as the Uttar Pradesh chief minister for a second term on Friday.
Keshav Maurya and Brajesh Pathak were sworn in as his deputies.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh attended the swearing-in ceremony at Lucknow’s Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium.
Adityanath became the first CM to return to power in the state after completing a five-year term and the saffron party scripted history in the UP politics, becoming the first party to retain power in UP since 1985.
Here is the full list of Yogi Adityanath ministers who took oath:
Deputy Chief Minister
- Keshav Prasad Maurya
- Brijesh Pathak
Cabinet
- Surya Pratap Shahi
- Suresh Kumar Khanna
- Swatantra Dev Singh
- Baby Rani Maurya
- Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary
- Jayveer Singh
- Dharampal Singh
- Nand Gopal Gupta
- Bhupendra Singh Choudhary
- Anil Rajbhar
- Jitin Prasada
- Rakesh Sachan
- Arvind Kumar Sharma
- Yogendra Upadhyay
- Ashish Patel
- Sanjay Nishad
Minister of State (Independent Charge)
- Nitin Agrawal
- Kapil Dev Agrawal
- Ravindra Jaiswal
- Sandeep Singh
- Gulab Devi
- Girish Chandra Yadav
- Dharmveer Prajapati
- Asim Arun
- JPS Rathore
- Dayashankar Singh
- Narendra Kashyap
- Dinesh Pratap Singh
- Arun Kumar Saxena
- Dayashankar Mishra ‘Dayalu’
Minister of State
- Mayankeshwar Singh
- Dinesh Khateek
- Sanjeev Gond
- Baldev Singh Olakh
- Ajit Pal
- Jaswant Saini
- Ramkesh Nishad
- Manohar Lal Mannu Kori
- Sanjay Gangwar
- Brijesh Singh
- KP Singh
- Suresh Rahi
- Somendra Tomar
- Anoop Pradhan ‘Valmiki’
- Pratibha Shukla
- Rakesh Rathore Guru
- Rajni Sharma
- Satish Sharma
