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BJP's Brahmin face in UP is skill development, entrepreneurship minister

The 62-year-old, who scored his second consecutive parliamentary electoral victory from Chandauli, is highly qualified and holds a doctorate from BHU

Mahendra Nath Pandey | File photo
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Mahendra Nath Pandey | File photo

Virendra Singh Rawat
Mahendra Nath Pandey, who was made the Uttar Pradesh BJP chief after the party's success in the 2017 Assembly election, has been elevated as a Cabinet minister and allocated the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
 
In the previous government, he served as a minister of state for the HRD ministry, before being assigned the uphill task of galvanising the party's organisational set-up in UP in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
 
The 62-year-old, who scored his second consecutive parliamentary electoral victory from Chandauli, is highly qualified and holds a doctorate from BHU. Pandey was involved