Yogi Adityanath oath-taking: Yogi takes oath as CM of Uttar Pradesh for second consecutive termYogi Adityanath, who led the BJP to a massive victory in the recently concluded Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, was on Thursday unanimously elected leader of the BJP legislature party paving the way for his appointment as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second consecutive term. Adityanath would be administered oath of office and secrecy on Friday.
Former SP member Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh takes oath minister of state
Former Minister of State for Housing and Urban Planning of State of UP Girish Yadav takes oath as Cabinet Minister
Former Deputy speaker of UP assembly Nitin Agarwal takes oath as UP Minister
Head of NISHAD party Sanjay Nishad takes oath as UP Minister
Former Technical Education Minister Jitin Prasad takes oath as UP Minister
Prasad quit Congress to join BJP in 2021.
Former UP Panchayati Raj minister Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary takes oath as UP Minister
Former irrigation minister Dharampal Singh takes oath as UP Minister
4-time MLA Chaudhary Laxmi Narayan Singh takes oath as UP Minister
Surya Pratap Shahi takes oath as UP's BJP president
Suresh Kumar Khanna takes oath as UP Minister
Keshav Prasad Maurya, Brajesh Pathak take oath as deputy CMs of Uttar Pradesh
This is Maurya'ssecond consecutive term as the deputy CM. Pathak has been appointed as the erstwhile Law Minister.
PM Modi arrives at Vajpayee Stadium ahead of Yogi's oath taking ceremony
Yogi Adityanath arrives at Vajpayee Stadium ahead of oath taking ceremony
The CM arrived along with Rajnath Singh, as well as other leaders including the CM's of Haryana, Goa and Uttarakhand.
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Keshav Maurya and Brajesh Pathak to be sworn in as deputy CM's in Yogi's cabinet
Many senior ministers in the Modi cabinet, chief ministers of the BJP-ruled states, Bollywood personalities, industrialists and BJP workers and leaders from all the Assembly constituencies would attend the ceremony. According to the sources, the team of the movieThe Kashmir Fileshas also been invited to attend the function.
Adityanath, who would be the first chief minister to return for the second term in the state in thepast 36 years, would take oath as CM at the sprawling Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ikana Stadium at a grand ceremony, which would be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modiamong others.
Speaking after his election as leader of the party's legislature group, Adityanath credited the victory of the party in the polls to Modi and said that he would strive to fulfil the promises made to the people and implement the manifesto of the party.