Yogi Adityanath Oath-taking: Acoording to the reports, names of those who have been called at the Chief Minister’s residence, it is almost certain they are set to become ministers, they said.
Baby Rani Maurya: She quit as Uttarakhand Governor to contest the UP election from Agra. She is one of the most prominent Scheduled Caste faces of the BJP.
Brajesh Pathak: Law minister in the previous UP government, he won from a seat in Lucknow. He is a prominent Brahmin leader of the party.
Jitin Prasada: He crossed over from the Congress last year and was made a minister in the Yogi Adityanath government. He is tipped to be a minister again.
AK Sharma: He’s a Member of UP’s legislative council. A former bureaucrat, he was known to be close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Yogi Adityanath had reportedly resisted his entry into the cabinet earlier.
Asim Arun: The former IPS (Indian Police Service) officer took voluntary retirement to join the BJP and contest the election. He won from Kannauj.
Swatantra Dev Singh: The state BJP chief is one of the party’s most prominent OBC (Other Backward Class) leaders. He is tipped for a top ministry.
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The full list of probable ministers called at the CM’s residence
Suresh Khanna
Keshav Maurya
Swatantra Dev Singh
Brajesh Pathak
Jaiveer Singh
Brajesh Singh
Rajeshwar Singh
JPS Rathore
Babyrani Maurya
Aseem Arun
Sarita Bhadauria
Arvind Sharma
Sandeep Singh
Sanjay Nishad
Ashish Patel
Bhupendra Choudhary
Jitin Prasad
Baldev Aulakh
Satish Sharma
Surya Pratap Shahi
Girish Yadav
This is only the second time in over three decades that a party has won two consecutive assembly polls in the state. At the meeting of the party’s newly elected MLAs, Adityanath said the prime minister’s inclusive mantra’ of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas had its impact on the UP poll results, and thanked him and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for guiding him through the first term.
PM Modi, senior BJP leaders including CMs from other states, and dignitaries from across different fields will attend the swearing-in ceremony at a Lucknow stadium on Friday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who attended the BJP MLAs’ meeting as an observer, said the party’s successes in UP since 2014 has established that people favoured the “politics of performance over that of casteism and appeasement”.
