Day After Oath As UP Ministers, Jitin Prasada, Six Others Get Portfolios
NDTV
Coming months ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, the cabinet expansion has poll arithmetic written all over it
Congress-turned-BJP leader Jitin Prasada has been appointed cabinet minister for Technical Education in Uttar Pradesh government after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expanded his team ahead of the Assembly polls next year.
Six other MLAs who took oath as ministers have also been allotted portfolios.
Dr Sangeeta Balwant Bind, first-time MLA from Ghazipur Sadar, has been named Minister of State for Cooperatives, and Dharamveer Prajapati, MLC from western UP's Agra, is now Minister of State, Industrial Development.
Sanjiv Kumar, first-time MLA from Obra in eastern UP's Sonbhadra, has been appointed Minister of State, Social Welfare, and Hastinapur MLA Dinesh Khateek is now Minister of State for MoS Jal Shakti.
