Yogi Adityanath Replaces His Team-11 With Team-9 For Covid Management

The new group called "Team- 9" also has two ministers. The nine members head their own committees or departments involved in fighting the pandemic.

Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday replaced his "Team-11", a group of officials tasked with managing the crises, with a new nine-member set of ministers and bureaucrats. Opposition parties have been slamming Yogi Adityanath and Team-11 for their alleged failure to control the pandemic in the country's most populous state. The Chief Minister was also accused of relying too much on bureaucrats, an allegation levelled also by an MLA from the ruling BJP itself. "Chief Minister Adityanath's experiment to control the COVID pandemic with the help of the bureaucracy has failed," Bairia MLA Surendra Singh told reporters on Friday.