The Many Portfolios Of Yogi Adityanath

In his second term in office Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has retained 34 portfolios.

Syed Firdaus Ashraf and Hemant Shivsaran find out how this compares with his predecessors.

When Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath farmed out the portfolios in his newly formed cabinet last week, he retained 34 ministries with himself.

Interestingly, Yogi has not done anything unusual. His predecessors had done the same.

Akhilesh Yadav, who served as UP chief minister from 2012 to 2017, controlled a staggering 54 ministries.

Akhilesh's predecessor Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati retained 35 ministries when took charge of UP in 2007.

Another common factor among the three chief ministers was that none of them parted with the most powerful portfolio, home.

Unlike Mayawati and Akhilesh, Yogi has two deputy chief ministers. In his second stint Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya are his deputies while in his first stint in office it was Dinesh Sharma and Maurya.

In 2017, Yogi handled 35 ministries but of that he dropped nine ministries and added another eight in 2022.

The portfolios that Yogi added are: Revenue, information, Sainik welfare, provincial guard, civil aviation, protocol, justice and legislative department.

The departments Yogi dropped in 2022 are: Flood control, prisons, externally aided projects, city line, assistance and rehabilitation, co-ordination, national integration, consumer protection and distribution measurements.

If you want to compare's Yogi's portfolios with Akhilesh Yadav's 54 portfolios, here they are:

And here are the portfolios Mayawati retained in 2007 when she became the chief minister.