It is being seen as an try by the BJP to consolidate its place in a number of areas of the state forward of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Four new ministers had been inducted Tuesday into the Council headed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar was administered the oath of workplace alongside RLD’s Anil Kumar and two BJP leaders.
They had been sworn-in as ministers by Governor Anandiben Patel on the Raj Bhavan in the presence of Adityanath.
Apart from SBSP’s Rajbhar and RLD’s Kumar, Dara Singh Chauhan and Sunil Kumar Sharma from the BJP are the brand new entrants into the state Cabinet.
While Rajbhar represents the Zahoorabad meeting constituency of the Ghazipur district, Anil Kumar is an MLA from Purkazi (SC) in Muzaffarnagar.
Sunil Kumar Sharma is the BJP MLA from Sahibabad meeting constituency in Ghaziabad district. Dara Singh Chauhan is a member of the UP Legislative Council.
This is the primary Cabinet enlargement in Adityanath’s second time period as chief minister.
It is being seen as an try by the BJP to consolidate its place in a number of areas of the state forward of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The Rashtriya Lok Dal and the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party are actually part of the ruling NDA.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by DNA workers and is printed from PTI)
