UP CM Yogi Adityanath expands Cabinet, inducts seven new faces
UP CM Yogi Adityanath expands Cabinet, inducts seven new faces
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Uttar Pradesh: With less than 6 months remaining for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Bharatya Janata party government led by Yogi Adityanath on Sunday expanded its Council of Ministers, inducting seven new faces, including six from the numerically significant non-Yadav OBC and non-Jatav Dalit castes, whose support has been the key to the BJP’s success in the State in the last few elections.

Jitin Prasada, Brahmin leader and former Member of Parliament (MP) who left the Congress and joined the BJP in June, was rewarded with a Cabinet berth as the BJP tries to consolidate its grip over the influential community. The remaining six, who were administered oath as Ministers of State by Governor Anandiben Patel, consist of three OBCs and three Dalits, including one from the Scheduled Tribe community. It was widely speculated that Nishad Party president Sanjay Nishad, an ally of the BJP, would find a place in the Cabinet expansion but that did not happen.

Prasada won the Lok Sabha election from Dhauraha in 2009 but lost consecutive elections in 2014 and 2019, standing fourth and third, and even lost the Assembly election from Tilhar in 2017 despite the support of the Samajwadi Party.

Uttar Pradesh is the fourth BJP-ruled state where a major rejig is happening after Gujarat, Karnataka and Uttarakhand. Earlier in the month, Bhupendra Patel was sworn in as Gujarat's new chief minister replacing Vijay Rupani. The entire Gujarat cabinet was changed subsequently.
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