Yogi Aditya Nath will be sworn in as UP Chief Minister today.The Yogi Aditya swearing-in ceremony will be held at 4 pm at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.
Along with Yogi, several leaders will be sworn in as ministers.Information that 60 people will be sworn in as ministers.25-30 newcomers are likely to be given a place in the cabinet.The BJP will form the government for the second time in a row after 37 years.
Prime Minister Modi, JP Nadda, Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Anurag Tagore, Dharmendra Pradhan, Smriti Irani, Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled states, political and industrial dignitaries will attend the swearing-in ceremony.The BJP has sent invitations to Akhilesh, Mulayam, Mayawati, Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi.
A huge stage was set up in the stadium under the name ‘Naya Bharat Ka Naya UP’.It is estimated that 85,000 people will attend the Yogi swearing-in ceremony.
The BJP won 255 of the 403 seats in the recent assembly elections.
Yogi Adityanath is the first, and thus far the only Uttar Pradesh chief minister to be re-elected after serving a full, five-year term.
Other CMs who won a second straight term are Sampurnanand (1957), Chandrabhanu Gupta (1972), Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna (1974), and Narayan Dutt Tiwari (1985).