{"id":68871,"date":"2019-08-24T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T11:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=68871"},"modified":"2019-08-24T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T11:33:58","slug":"yogi-cabinet-count-rises-to-56-he-still-has-37-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/yogi-cabinet-count-rises-to-56-he-still-has-37-portfolios\/","title":{"rendered":"Yogi Cabinet count rises to 56 he still has 37 portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite adding 18 new faces and taking the total number of ministers in his Cabinet to 56, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has still kept 37 departments with himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While allocating portfolios, Yogi adopted the stick and carrot policy by stripping some controversial and \u201cbelow-average\u201d performing ministers of their portfolios and awarding others with additional departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CM kept 11 major departments, including home, information, revenue, housing and mining, for which he has not even appointed a junior minister. The portfolios of the two Deputy Chief Ministers remain untouched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, the CM has downgraded Nand Gopal Nandi from stamp and registration ministry to political pension and minority welfare. Cricketer-turned-politician Chetan Chauhan has also lost sports and he has been allocated civil, defence and army men welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New entrants Ram Naresh Agnihotri and Kamla Rani Varun have been given important excise and technical education departments, respectively. Another newcomer, Satish Dwivedi, will look after basic education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the gainers are Rajendra Pratap Singh alias Moti Singh, who gets rural and integrated development. Elevated to Cabinet rank, Mahendra Singh has been given newly created jal shakti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite adding 18 new faces and taking the total number of ministers in his Cabinet to 56, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68873,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68871\/revisions\/68873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}