The UP CMO may have as many as eight Officers on Special Duty (OSDs). Six of the selected persons have worked with him either at Gorakhnath temple or at his official residence in Delhi for several years. The remaining two are BJP workers. These OSDs may be given salaries given to Class 1 officers. Raj Bhushan Singh Rawat, currently Yogi's personal assistant, is one among the eight to become the OSD. He used to work with him in Delhi but moved to Lucknow soon after Yogi became Chief Minister. Dharmendra Chaudhary and Krishnaraj Pandey, who looked after Adityanath's work in Delhi when he was a Lok Sabha member, are also on the list. Similarly, Umesh Singh, who earlier worked as Adityanath's personal assistant in Gorakhpur, also gets the OSD rank. Dwarika Prasad, who has been in charge of Gorakhnath temple and looks after the functioning of the administration there, has also been appointed as OSD. Himalaya Giri, another name on the list, has also been a staffer at Gorakhnath temple. Abhishek Kaushik and Sanjeev Singh are the last two on the list new OSDs. Both were linked to the ABVP before moving to BJP. Kaushik was instrumental in organizing the Kamal Mela programs of the BJP before the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and had worked in the party's social media 'war room' during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as well. Singh is former national co-convener of BJP's Information Technology Cell. He has been the state convener of the IT cell in UP as well and is currently a member of BJP's state executive committee.