In the cautious balancing of caste and regional illustration within the Yogi Adityanath authorities, the scales have tilted towards long-time BJP leaders. From over 70 per cent illustration within the 2017 Adityanath Cabinet, BJP cadre power has dropped to lower than half within the new one.
Many who have gotten Cabinet berths joined the BJP following the Modi wave win of 2014, together with a number of who joined not too long ago.
Team Yogi 2.0 took oath Friday with 53 members, together with the CM, his Deputies Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brijesh Pathak, 16 Cabinet ministers, 14 Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and 20 Ministers of State. In 2017, he had a smaller staff, of 46, however a a lot larger variety of Cabinet ministers (22).
Among the 16 Cabinet ministers now, seven – Surya Pratap Shahi, Suresh Kumar Khanna, Swatantra Dev Singh, Baby Rani Maurya, Dharmpal Singh, Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary and Yogendra Upadhyaya – are long-time BJP employees, having been with the celebration or Sangh Parivar because the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.
In 2017, as many as 16 of the 22 Cabinet ministers fell on this class.
Of the remaining 9 Cabinet ministers within the new Adityanath authorities, two – Ashish Patel (Apna Dal) and Sanjay Nishad (NISHAD Party) – are members of BJP alliance companions; whereas seven others – Chaudhary Laxmi Narayan, Jaivir Singh, Jitin Prasada, Rakesh Sachan, Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’, Arvind Kumar Sharma and Anil Rajbhar – joined the BJP put up 2015. Two of them (Prasada and Sachan) joined within the final one yr.
Again, whereas within the final tenure of the Yogi authorities, each the Deputy CMs have been long-time BJP leaders, Brijesh Pathak, named as Deputy CM this time, moved from the BSP to the BJP solely in 2017. Pathak by the way had criticized the Adityanath authorities’s dealing with of Covid-19, and had even written letters to the state authorities on the matter.
Among the brand new ministers who’ve been within the BJP solely since 2015, at the least three have been a part of the BSP authorities led by Mayawati (2007-2012). They embrace Jaivir Singh, Nand Gopal Gupta, and Laxmi Narayan, who has additionally been within the Lok Dal, Congress and Loktantrik Congress Party, and served earlier in BJP-led governments.
Some of the seven non-BJP cadre inducted as ministers have been additionally a part of the Adityanath authorities final time.
Cabinet ministers with lengthy BJP background who have been dropped this time have been Siddharth Nath Singh, Shrikant Sharma and Ashutosh Tandon.
A UP BJP chief admitted there have been a number of components at play. “The composition of the Council of Ministers has kept in mind caste, social and regional balance.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
