While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has focused “parivarvaad” (dynasty politics) in current weeks, there are at the very least six ministers within the new Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh authorities, who belong to established political households. These embody two cupboard ministers, Surya Pratap Shahi and Jitin Prasada, two ministers of state (MoS) with unbiased cost, Nitin Agrawal and Sandeep Singh, and two MoS, Mayankeshwar Singh and Suresh Rahi.
The ruling BJP, nonetheless, additionally dropped a number of such dynasties from its ministry This time, who had been ministers within the earlier Adityanath authorities. They embody Ashutosh Tandon (son of former MP governor Lalji Tandon), Sidharth Nath Singh (grandson of Lal Bahadur Shashtri), Atul Garg (son of ex-Ghaziabad mayor Dinesh Garg), and Neelima Katiyar (daughter of ex-minister Premlata Katiyar) .
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Several BJP MLAs from political households, who couldn’t make it to the 52-member Adityanath authorities 2.0, embody Pankaj Singh (son of protection minister Rajnath Singh), Vimlesh Paswan (brother of celebration MP Kamlesh Paswan), Fateh Bahadur Singh (son of ex-CM Vir Bahadur Singh), Rani Pakshalika Singh (spouse of former minister Mahendra Aridaman Singh), Aditi Singh (daughter of ex-MLA Akhilesh Singh), Prateek Bhushan Singh (son of celebration MP Brajbhushan Sharan Singh), Anurag Singh (son of ex-state president Om Prakash Singh), Shashank Verma (son of former senior chief Ram Kumar Verma), Saurav Srivastav (son of ex-minister Harishchandra Srivastav), Harshvardhan Bajpai (son of former MLA Ashok Bajpai), Sunil Dwivedi (son of ex-senior chief Brahmdutt Dwivedi), Neeraj Vora (son of ex-Lucknow mayor DP Vora), and Archna Pandey (daughter of ex-senior chief Ram Prakash Tripathi).
Here is a take a look at six dynasts who’re a part of Adityanath‘s new ministerial staff:
Surya Pratap Shahi, cupboard minister
An MLA from Pathardeva in Deoria district, Surya Pratap Shahi has been related to the BJP for a very long time. He was the house minister within the Kalyan Singh-led BJP authorities in 1991 and was the previous UP BJP president. In the earlier Adityanath authorities he was the agriculture minister. His uncle Ravindra Kishor Shahi was the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS)’s UP unit chief and a minister within the 1977 Janata Party-led UP authorities headed by Ram Naresh Yadav. Ravindra Kishor was among the many BJS’s outstanding leaders from japanese UP. After his demise in 1982, Surya Pratap Shahi took over his political legacy.
Jitin Prasada, cupboard minister
Jitin Prasada, who belongs to a household deeply rooted within the Congress, give up the grand outdated celebration and switched to the BJP in June final yr. His father Jitendra Prasada was a outstanding Congress chief, four-time Lok Sabha MP, and political advisor to 2 Prime Ministers, Rajiv Gandhi and PV Narasimha Rao. Jitin was among the many members of high Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s core staff till his defection to the BJP months forward of the UP Assembly polls. The saffron celebration made him an MLC and has now inducted him into the Adityanath authorities.
Nitin Agrawal, MoS with unbiased cost
Nitin Agrawal is son of senior chief Naresh Agrawal, a identified turncoat, who was initially with the Congress earlier than forming his breakaway outfit Loktantrik Congress to be a part of the Kalyan Singh-led coalition authorities in 1997. Naresh was additionally with the BSP and SP earlier than he joined the BJP in March 2018 after being denied the Rajya Sabha ticket by the SP. Nitin gained the 2017 Assembly election from his residence turf Hardoi on the SP ticket, however was later elected deputy speaker with the BJP’s assist. In the 2022 election, he was fielded by the BJP as its candidate from the identical seat, which he gained once more.
Sandeep Singh, MoS with unbiased cost
Sandeep Singh is the grandson of the BJP / BJS stalwart, late Kalyan Singh, who was the two-time UP CM and former state unit president. Sandeep, whose father Rajveer is at present a BJP MP, gained from his residence turf Atrauli on the saffron celebration ticket. His mom Premlata can be a former celebration MLA. Sandeep was an MoS within the earlier Adityanath authorities too.
Mayankeshwar Singh, MoS
Mayankeshwar Singh belongs to an erstwhile royal household of Tiloi in Rae Bareilly. His father Mohan Singh was a BJS MLA from Tiloi in 1969, who later joined the Congress and went on to win the identical seat on its ticket in 1974 and 1977. Mayankeshwar, who was with the SP earlier, later joined the BJP and gained from Tiloi on its ticket in each the 2017 and 2022 polls.
Suresh Rahi, MoS
Suresh Rahi’s father Ramlal Rahi had been related to a number of events together with the Congress, Janata Party and BJP. A two-time MLA from Hargaon, Ramlal was additionally elected to the Lok Sabha from Misrikh constituency. He was the MoS, residence, within the Narasimha Rao authorities. Ramlal had additionally give up the Congress however returned to the celebration in 2017 following its chief Priyanka Gandhi’s intervention. Suresh joined the BJP and gained Hargaon seat on its ticket within the 2017 and 2022 elections. Earlier, his brother Ramesh Rahi was an SP MLA from the identical seat.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
