Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government has up their game in the coming Assembly elections by inducing seven new minister in the Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet today. The cabinet includes Jitin Prasada who had left Congress to join BJP. He took oath as cabinet minister today.
BJP leaders Chhatrapal Singh, Paltu Ram, Sangeeta Bind, Dharamveer Prajapati, Sanjeev Kumar, Dinesh Khatik took oath as junior ministers (MoS).
Yogi Adityanath tweeted about the oath taking ceremony.
मंत्रिमंडल विस्तार… https://t.co/vlgu5VF9Ug
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) September 26, 2021
Reacting to the cabinet expansion, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party President Om Prakash Rajbhar said patridges (titar in Hindi) are being bred to corner the Dalits and the backward classes of society.
Drawing a parallel between the MLAs and partridges, he said, “The partridges will come, speak the bid. Then they will be collected and killed.”
Until today, there were 53 ministers in the cabinet and the government had seven empty places as per the constitutional limit. There were 23 cabinet ministers including the chief minister. With Jitin in, now the number of cabinet ministers stand at 24.
There were 21 ministers of state and nine ministers of state with independent charges. The maximum strength of the UP Cabinet can be 15% of the total strength of its Assembly.
Earlier this week UP government had officially made an alliance with the Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Apna Dal (Nishad) Party, to contest the 2022 Assembly poll and have a strong hold in Uttar Pradesh.
Putting all the speculations of the rift to end, Union Minister and BJP’s UP poll in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan made the formal announcement that the ruling party would contest the upcoming state assembly elections in alliance with Nishad Party and Apna Dal under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath.
The Nishad Party had contested the 2017 assembly elections as an ally of the Peace Party, led by Dr Ayub, and contested 72 seats. Its candidate Vijay Mishra had won from Gyanpur seat in Bhadohi district.
Uttar Pradesh will go to polls early next year with fight expected to be between Yogi-led BJP and Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party. In the 2017 Assembly elections, the BJP had won 312 seats out of the 403 seats, while the SP was restricted to just 47, 177 seats down from what it had won in 2012.
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