For the first time after the defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, BJP has taken a big action in UP. The ministers in charge of most of the districts in UP have been changed. On Thursday evening, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had called a meeting of all his ministers. This decision was taken during this meeting. In view of the poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections and the upcoming by-elections, the in-charges have been changed. The Chief Minister himself and both Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak will look after 25-25 districts each.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held an important meeting with his cabinet colleagues at his official residence at 5 Kalidas Marg on Thursday evening. Many ministers, including Suresh Khanna, Swatantradev Singh, Jaiveer Singh, Yogendra Upadhyay, Asim Arun, have been given the responsibility of important districts, while some ministers have been removed from big districts and given charge of smaller districts. The heads of the three alliance parties have been given charge of one district each.
Suryapratap Shahi has been made the minister in charge of Ayodhya and Bahraich instead of Ayodhya and Azamgarh. Suresh Khanna will now look after Lucknow and Varanasi instead of Gorakhpur and Lucknow, Swatantradev Singh will look after Gorakhpur and Prayagraj instead of Prayagraj and Banda. Baby Rani Maurya has now been given the responsibility of Jhansi and Hathras instead of Jhansi and Kanpur Dehat, Laxminarayan Chaudhary has been given the responsibility of Aligarh-Kasganj instead of Aligarh and Etawah, Jaiveer Singh has been given the responsibility of Agra and Farrukhabad instead of Varanasi-Bareilly.
Dharampal Singh will be the minister in charge of Meerut-Unnao instead of Meerut and Sambhal, Nandgopal Gupta Nandi will now be the minister in charge of Mirzapur-Banda instead of Mirzapur-Kanpur Nagar. Anil Rajbhar has been made the minister in charge of Azamgarh-Siddharthnagar instead of Gonda and Mau, Rakesh Sachan has been made the minister in charge of Rae Bareli-Balrampur in place of Basti-Fatehpur, Arvind Kumar Sharma has been made the minister in charge of Jaunpur-Bhadohi in place of Agra-Siddharthnagar, Yogendra Upadhyay has been made the minister in charge of Kanpur Nagar-Firozabad instead of Saharanpur-Farrukhabad.
Allies and new ministers to be given one district each
Ashish Patel has been made the in-charge minister of Basti instead of Lakhimpur Kheri and Sultanpur, Sanjay Nishad has been made the in-charge minister of Kanpur Dehat instead of Bahraich-Auraiya. Among the new ministers, Om Prakash Rajbhar has been given the charge of Sultanpur, Dara Singh Chauhan of Gonda, Sunil Kumar Sharma of Saharanpur, Anil Kumar of Moradabad district.
Charge of many independent charge ministers remains intact
Among the ministers of state with independent charge, Nitin Agarwal has been given Lakhimpur Kheri-Shravasti in place of Pratapgarh-Balrampur, Kapildev Agarwal has been given Bijnor-Hapur and Ravindra Jaiswal has been given the charge of Sonbhadra-Ghazipur. Sandeep Singh has been given charge of Mathura-Etah in place of Mathura-Kasganj, Gulab Devi has been given charge of Badaun, Girishchandra Yadav has been given charge of Mau-Ambedkar Nagar in place of Ambedkar Nagar-Amethi, Dharmveer Prajapati has been given charge of Etawah-Sambhal in place of Jalaun, Asim Arun has been given charge of Ghaziabad-Hardoi in place of Ghaziabad-Hathras, JPS Rathore has been given charge of Bareilly-Rampur in place of Rampur-Hardoi, Dayashankar Singh has been given charge of Pratapgarh-Deoria in place of Unnao-Deoria, Narendra Kashyap has been given charge of Shahjahanpur-Mainpuri in place of Shahjahanpur-Chitrakoot, Dinesh Pratap Singh has been given charge of Kushinagar-Kaushambi in place of Jaunpur-Mahoba, Arun Kumar Saxena has been given charge of Bulandshahr, Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu has been given charge of Ballia-Maharajganj districts.
There has also been a change in the charge of several state ministers
Among the ministers of state, Dinesh Pratap Singh has been given the responsibility of Sitapur, Dinesh Khatik for Shamli, Sanjeev Gaur for Chandauli, Baldev Aulakh for Pilibhit, Ajit Pal Singh for Fatehpur, Jaswant Saini for Baghpat, Ramkesh Nishad for Hamirpur, Manoharlal Mannu Kori for Chitrakoot, Sanjay Gangwar for Jalaun, Brijesh Singh for Gautam Buddha Nagar, KP Malik for Amroha, Suresh Rahi for Barabanki, Somendra Tomar for Muzaffarnagar, Pratibha Shukla for Auraiya, Rakesh Rathore Guru for Mahoba, Rajni Tiwari for Kannauj, Satish Sharma for Amethi, Danish Azad Ansari for Lalitpur, Vijaylaxmi Gautam has been given the responsibility of Minister in Charge of Sant Kabir Nagar.
The team has been strengthened by changing the charge of districts: Shahi
Agriculture and Agricultural Education Minister Surya Pratap Shahi on Thursday termed the change of charge of ministers in districts as a good step and said that this would provide an opportunity to do better work in the new districts. Be it organisational or government work, the ministers with new charge would be able to work with a new perspective and new energy. Working continuously in a single district often leads to inertia, which will end and all ministers would be able to do better work in their new charge districts. According to Mr. Shahi, in the meeting the Chief Minister also gave useful guidance to all ministers and also directed them to directly communicate with the public and solve their problems.
It also instructed
-Ministers will be in their respective areas under their charge from 17th to 2nd October in the cleanliness drive
-Strongly communicate the work being done by the government to the public
-It will also be seen whether the beneficiaries are getting the benefits of the schemes or not
-Special attention should be paid to publicity in the areas where by-elections are being held.
Every effort must be made to win the election
-One day in a month will have to be given to the areas under charge.
-Hold separate meetings with organization and administrative officials.
-Discuss the problems of the public.
– Provide full benefits of government schemes to the public
