Uttar Pradesh Cabinet: Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Ministers and the Full Council of Ministers

Uttar Pradesh Cabinet: Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Ministers and the Full Council of Ministers

Uttar Pradesh has the largest State Council of Ministers in India. As of November 2026 it has 60 members: the Chief Minister, 2 Deputy Chief Ministers, 20 Cabinet Ministers, 16 Ministers of State with independent charge and 21 Ministers of State. The Council was expanded on 10 May 2026, when 6 new ministers were inducted and 2 Ministers of State were promoted to independent charge. Yogi Adityanath is the Chief Minister, in office since March 2022.

The Chief Minister

The Chief Minister heads the Council and holds the departments that are not allocated to any other minister.

• Yogi Adityanath: Chief Minister, holding Appointment, Personnel, Home, Vigilance, Housing and Urban Planning, Revenue, Mining and Minerals, Economics and Statistics, State Taxes and Registration, General Administration, Secretariat Administration, Confidential, Information, Election, Institutional Finance, Planning, State Property, U.P. Reconstitution Coordination, Administrative Reforms, Program Implementation, Infrastructure, Language, Deprivation Aid and Rehabilitation, Public Service Management, Rent Control, Protocol, Civil Aviation, Law and Legislative, Religious Affairs, and Public Works Department, with all departments not allocated to any other minister.

Deputy Chief Ministers (2)

Uttar Pradesh has two Deputy Chief Ministers, a convention the State has followed since 2017.

• Keshav Prasad Maurya: Rural Development; Overall Village Development; Rural Engineering; Food Processing; Entertainment Tax; Public Enterprises; and National Integration.
• Brajesh Pathak: Medical Education; Medical Health; Family Welfare; and Mother and Child Welfare.

Cabinet Ministers (20)

Cabinet Ministers head the major departments of the State Government.

• Suresh Kumar Khanna: Finance; and Parliamentary Affairs.
• Surya Pratap Shahi: Agriculture; Agricultural Education; and Agricultural Research.
• Swatantra Dev Singh: Jal Shakti; and Flood Control.
• Baby Rani Maurya: Women's Welfare; Child Development and Nutrition.
• Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary: Sugarcane Development; and Sugar Industry.
• Jayveer Singh: Tourism; and Culture.
• Dharmpal Singh: Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development.
• Nand Gopal Gupta “Nandi”: Industrial Development; Export Promotion; NRI; and Investment Promotion.
• Anil Rajbhar: Labour and Employment; and Coordination.
• Rakesh Sachan: Khadi and Village Industries; Sericulture Industries; and Handloom and Textile.
• Arvind Kumar Sharma: Urban Development; Overall Urban Development; Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation; Energy; and Additional Sources of Energy.
• Yogendra Upadhyay: Higher Education.
• Ashish Patel: Technical Education; Consumer Protection; and Weights and Measures.
• Sanjay Nishad: Fisheries.
• Om Prakash Rajbhar: Panchayati Raj; Minority Welfare; and Muslim Waqf and Haj.
• Dara Singh Chauhan: Jail.
• Sunil Kumar Sharma: Electronics and Information Technology.
• Anil Kumar: Science and Technology.
• Bhupendra Chaudhary: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
• Manoj Pandey: Food and Logistics; and Civil Supplies.

Ministers of State with independent charge (16)

A Minister of State with independent charge heads a department on his or her own, without a Cabinet Minister above.

• Nitin Agrawal: Excise and Prohibition.
• Kapil Dev Agrawal: Professional Education and Skill Development.
• Ravindra Jaiswal: Stamp and Court Fee; and Registration.
• Sandeep Singh: Basic Education.
• Gulab Devi: Secondary Education.
• Girish Chandra Yadav: Sports; and Youth Welfare.
• Dharmveer Prajapati: Home Guard; and Civil Defence.
• Asim Arun: Social Welfare; and Scheduled Caste and Tribal Welfare.
• Jayendra Pratap Singh Rathore: Cooperative.
• Dayashankar Singh: Transport.
• Narendra Kumar Kashyap: Backward Class Welfare; and Divyangjan Empowerment.
• Dinesh Pratap Singh: Horticulture; Agricultural Marketing; Agricultural Foreign Trade; and Agricultural Exports.
• Arun Kumar Saxena: Forest and Environment; Zoological Garden; and Climate Change.
• Dayashankar Mishra “Dayalu”: Ayush.
• Ajeet Pal: Food Security and Drug Administration.
• Somendra Tomar: Political Pension; Sainik Welfare; and P.R.D.

Ministers of State (21)

Ministers of State assist Cabinet Ministers in their departments.

• Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh: Parliamentary Affairs; Medical Education; Medical and Health; Family Welfare; and Mother and Child Welfare.
• Dinesh Khatik: Jal Shakti.
• Sanjeev Gond: Social Welfare; and Scheduled Castes and Tribal Welfare.
• Baldev Singh Olakh: Agriculture; Agricultural Education; and Agricultural Research.
• Jaswant Singh Saini: Parliamentary Affairs; and Industrial Development.
• Ramkesh Nishad: Jal Shakti.
• Manohar Lal Mannu Kori: Labour; and Employment.
• Sanjay Singh Gangwar: Sugarcane Development; and Sugar Mills.
• Brajesh Singh: Public Works Department.
• K. P. Malik: Forest; Environment; Zoological Garden; and Climate Change.
• Suresh Rahi: Jail.
• Pratibha Shukla: Women's Welfare; Child Development and Nutrition.
• Rakesh Rathore Guru: Urban Development; Overall Urban Development; Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation.
• Rajni Tiwari: Higher Education.
• Satish Chandra Sharma: Food and Logistics; and Civil Supplies.
• Danish Azad Ansari: Minority Welfare; Muslim Waqf; and Haj.
• Vijay Laxmi Gautam: Rural Development; Overall Village Development; and Rural Engineering.
• Krishna Paswan: Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development.
• Kailash Singh Rajput: Energy; and Additional Sources of Energy.
• Surendra Diler: Revenue.
• Hans Raj Vishwakarma: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

How a State Council is formed

• Article 163: there shall be a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at the head to aid and advise the Governor.
• Article 164: the Chief Minister is appointed by the Governor, and the other ministers are appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister. A minister who is not a member of the State Legislature for six consecutive months ceases to be a minister.
• Article 164(4) and collective responsibility: the Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly.
• 91st Amendment, 2003 (Article 164(1A)): the total number of ministers, including the Chief Minister, cannot exceed 15 percent of the total strength of the Legislative Assembly, and cannot be less than 12. The Uttar Pradesh Assembly has 403 members, so the ceiling is 60 ministers, and the present Council of 60 sits exactly at that ceiling.