CM Yogi allocates portfolios, Rakesh Sachan to be new MSME Minister of State

New Delhi, Mar 29 (KNN) Three days after his swearing-in as Uttar Pradesh CM, Yogi Adityanath has allocated portfolios to the new ministers in the state government. Rakesh Sachan, who was previously in  Congress has got MSME, khadi and village industries, handloom and textile industries in the new cabinet. 

MLA Suresh Khanna has been given the finance and parliamentary affairs and medical education.

Among the ministers from the alliance partners, Ashish Patel of Apna Dal (Sonelal) was given the technical education with the consumer protection and metrology and Nishad Party president Sanjay Nishad got the fisheries.

Dinesh Pratap Singh, a former Congress leader from Rae Bareili who is also contesting the MLC elections as a BJP nominee, got the horticulture, agriculture marketing, agriculture foreign trade and the agriculture export.

Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, who was holding PWD, food processing and public enterprises in the previous cabinet, was allocated the rural development, rural overall development, rural engineering, entertainment tax and national integration besides food processing and public enterprises.

The PWD portfolio went to Jitin Prasada, a former Union minister who switched sides from the Congress to join the BJP last year.

Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak, who joined the BJP in 2016, got the medical education, medical, and health and family welfare, and mother and child care while Anil Rajbhar got the labour, unemployment and coordination.

Baby Rani Maurya, former Uttarakhand Governor and the only woman in the cabinet, was allocated the women welfare and child development and nutrition.

BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh got the Jal Shakti, Namami Gange and rural water supply, irrigation and water resources, irrigation (mechanical), minor irrigation, flood control and fallow land development. 

Yogi Adityanath has kept the key home, vigilance and 32 other departments with himself. (KNN Bureau)