Adityanath cabinet's lone Muslim face elected to UP legislature unopposed

Membership term of Raza, who is the UP minister of state for Waqf, would be of about eight months only

Mohsin Raza, the lone Muslim face in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet, was on Monday elected unopposed to the Vidhan Parishad, the Upper House of the Uttar Pradesh legislature.

The 49-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was among the four other state cabinet members, including Yogi, who had been nominated by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to contest the recent Vidhan Parishad polls to fill five vacant seats.

While Adityanath, two deputy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma, apart from UP transport minister Swatantra Dev Singh were declared elected unopposed to the Upper House on September 8, Raza was given the certificate of