Now, the Yogi 2.0 cupboard has 10 ministers every from the OBC and higher castes and two Dalit ministers. OBCs account for 40 % of the state inhabitants, Dalits 21 %, and Brahmins just a little over 9 %, in response to the 2011 Census.
After Yogi received the state polls in March 2022, 53 ministers, together with 19 cupboard ministers, 14 ministers with impartial cost, and 20 ministers of state, took oath with him. However, 5 months later, Jat chief Bhupendra Chaudhary needed to resign after he turned the BJP state president. The power of the council of ministers dropped to 52.
After Tuesday’s inductions, the power of the council of ministers reached 56. Together with 22 cupboard ministers, 14 ministers with impartial cost and 20 ministers of state are within the council now. 4 extra vacancies for ministers stay.
The council of ministers has 24 ministers from the higher castes, 20 ministers from the OBC group, and 10 ministers from the SC group. Moreover, a Sikh and a Muslim minister symbolize the 2 minority communities.
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O.P. Rajbhar’s return to cupboard
SBSP chief Rajbhar’s return to the state cupboard comes 5 years after he resigned from the Yogi 1.0 cupboard.
Rajbhar had resigned after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and the SBSP fought the 2022 UP meeting polls as a part of the Samajwadi Celebration(SP)-led Mahagathbandhan. Nevertheless, Rajbhar rejoined the NDA in July 2023.
SBSP instructions affect over the Rajbhar group, together with the Dhangar, Pal, Prajapati, Arkvanshi, and Sonar communities, in jap UP. The Rajbhar group comes below the OBC class and holds sway in over 20 meeting constituencies in jap UP districts, together with Ghazipur, Mau, Ballia and Azamgarh, the place over 40,000 group members are a deciding issue. The BJP is seeking to achieve extra floor within the area.
SBSP fought the 2017 state election with the BJP and received 4 seats. However, Rajbhar parted methods with the BJP when requested to battle the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Ghosi on a BJP ticket. He resigned from the Yogi 1.0 cupboard in Could that 12 months. On the time, he alleged the BJP wished to complete SBSP. Spoiling the NDA ballot plot, SBSP fielded 39 candidates within the 2019 election.
Rajbhar contested the 2022 state election as part of the SP-led Mahagathbandhan from the Zahoorabad constituency in Ghazipur district. He received the seat, with a vote share of over 46 %. SBSP received six seats within the jap UP area (Purvanchal). Identified for its financial backwardness, Purvanchal is the place the SP-SBSP alliance made main good points and received 42 out of 107 seats.
Later, Rajbhar made a number of statements in opposition to Akhilesh Yadav and the SP, returning to the NDA fold in July 2023.
Since then, Rajbhar has been demanding ministership within the Yogi authorities and even declared he wouldn’t enable the notification for the 2024 Lok Sabha election until his induction.
The Rajbhar group is influential in sure Lok Sabha seats of jap UP, like Ambedkar Nagar, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Sant Kabir Nagar, and Salempur.
‘Serial turncoat’ Dara Singh Chauhan
Dara Singh Chauhan, like Rajbhar, is having a ‘ghar-wapsi’ of types.
Chauhan served because the forest minister within the Yogi 1.0 authorities however give up in January 2022. In a dramatic transfer forward of the UP meeting elections that 12 months, Chauhan, together with OBC leaders Swami Prasad Maurya and Dharam Singh Saini, give up their ministership and joined the SP.
Maurya and Saini misplaced in that election, however Chauhan clinched a win from the Ghosi meeting seat. Over a 12 months later, he resigned from his meeting membership on 15 July, 2023, necessitating a bypoll.
Chauhan misplaced that bypoll to SP’s Sudhakar Singh and rejoined the BJP two days later. Prime leaders of the BJP, together with Yogi Adityanath, deputy CM Brajesh Pathak and BJP ally O.P. Rajbhar had campaigned for the election.
Chauhan forayed into pupil politics as a Congress employee and served as vice-president of Azamgarh’s Dayanand PG Faculty.
He has a historical past of switching sides and has modified events no less than six occasions.
“Within the Nineties, he joined the BSP, which despatched him to Rajya Sabha as an MP in 1996. However after finishing the four-year time period, he switched to the SP and have become a Rajya Sabha MP for the second time in 2000. Earlier than the 2007 state election, he switched to the BSP once more when the Mayawati-led occasion shaped a authorities with a full majority. Nevertheless, in February 2015, he switched to the BJP,” mentioned an SP chief from Ghosi to ThePrint on situation of anonymity.
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Sunil Kumar Sharma
4-time MLA Sunil Kumar Sharma is the BJP’s well-liked Brahmin face from western UP and a record-holder MLA. Having began his political profession as a BJP MLA from Ghaziabad in 2007, Sharma misplaced to BSP’s Amarpal Sharma within the 2012 state election from the adjoining Sahibabad constituency. Within the subsequent elections, he received the seat thrice.
Sahibabad, the meeting seat with the best variety of voters in UP (10.2 lakh) holds the important thing to the Ghaziabad Lok Sabha constituency. It has almost 35 % of the LS constituency’s voters as residents.
Sharma registered a large win over the rival Congress candidate within the 2017 state election, with a margin of 1.5 lakh votes. He was then appointed president of the Panchayati Raj committee of the UP legislative meeting and given the standing of state minister.
He broke his document and registered the most important win from the Sahibabad constituency within the 2022 state election. He defeated closest rival Amarpal Sharma, then with the SP, by 2.14 lakh votes. That made him the meeting election winner with the best margin of votes within the nation within the India E-book of Data.
Sharma enjoys recognition among the many higher caste voters, particularly Brahmins, and has been uneasy ever since he was denied a ministerial berth in 2022. A ministerial berth to him now could be being seen as a bid to woo the Brahmin group of West UP.
RLD’s SC face Anil Kumar
RLD’s Anil Kumar, who belongs to the SC group, is a third-time MLA from Muzaffarnagar’s Purkazi meeting constituency and hails from Saharanpur.
Having began his profession with the BSP, Kumar turned MLA for the primary time in 2007 from the Charthawal meeting seat.
When the Purkazi (SC) seat got here into existence after delimitation, he received the 2012 UP meeting election on a BSP ticket. However he misplaced the 2017 election to BJP’s Pramod Utwal. Within the 2022 election, Kumar defeated Utwal and received the seat on an RLD ticket.
On Tuesday, Kumar beat two senior RLD leaders, together with Budhana MLA Rajpal Baliyan, to turn out to be a minister.
Celebration sources mentioned Kumar had been related to the SP and fought the 2022 meeting elections on an alliance ticket however has remained steadfast with the RLD after Jayant Chaudhary determined to half methods with the INDIA alliance.
“What labored for him is the truth that he he comes from the SC group,” mentioned an RLD chief.
(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)
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