Yogi Adityanath keeps revenue, home in 25-member UP cabinet
demand was made in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday to change the name of Havelock island in the Andamans, with a BJP member saying that naming a place after a person who had fought Indian patriots in 1857 was a matter of shame.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member LA Ganesan raised the matter during the zero hour saying that Havelock had fought against Indians during the revolt led by leaders like Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi.
He said there was a statue of him in the Trafalgar Square in London for his role in crushing the forces of Indian patriots.
Ganesan remarked that over 60 years after Independence, there is still an island named after such a person.
“Can there be a greater insult than this to our patriots?” Ganesan asked.
He also said that Andaman islands is a place where people like Veer Savarkar had been jailed.
After Ganesan raised questions about an island being named after an East India Company’s general, deputy chairman PJ Kurien said it was a good suggestion which the government should examine. ment.
Rita Bahuguna Joshi got women and family welfare, women and child development and tourism, Dara Singh Chauhan has been given forest and environment, zoological gardens, Dharampal Singh irrigation, SP Singh Baghel fisheries, minor irrigation and animal husbandry while Satyadev Pachauri got Khadi Gramodyog, silk and export promotion.
Cabinet ministers Ramapati Shastri got SC/ST welfare while Jai Prakash Singh got charge of the excise department.
Om Prakash Rajbhar got backward castes and handicap welfare, Brijesh Pathak law and justice, political pension, renewable energy, Lakshmi Narain Chowdhury milk development, religious endowment culture, minority welfare, Chetan Chauhan sports and youth welfare, Srikant Sharma power, Rajendra Pratap Singh alias Moti Singh rural engineering department, Mukut Bihari Verma cooperative, Ashutosh Tondon technical and medical education and Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi stamp and court fees, registration and civil aviation departments.
The lone Muslim face in the council of ministers, Mohsin Raza got science and technology, electronics, IT, Muslim Waqf and Haj.
Among the nine Ministers of State (Independent charge) Anupma Jaiswal got Basic Education, Child Development and Nutrition, Finance, Revenue, Suresh Rana - Cane Development, Sugar Mills and Industrial Development, Upendra Tiwari - Environment, Water Supply, Land Development and Water Resources and Forest, Mahendra Kumar Singh - Rural development, Medical and Health, Swatantra Dev Singh Transport, Protocol and Power, Bhupendra Singh Chowdhury Panchyati Raj, PWD, Dharam Singh Saini - Ayush, Rehabilitation, Anil Rajbhar - Armymen Welfare, Homeguards, Food Processing, Civil Defence and Swati Singh - NRI Department, Flood Control, Agriculture Export, Marketing, Women and Family welfare and Mother and Child Development departments.
Besides, 13 ministers of state were also given portfolios.
The Adityanath government has 25 cabinet ministers, nine ministers of state (independent charge) and 13 ministers of state.