President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to Cabinet Minister Anupriya Singh Patel at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
The cabinet expansion of the Narendra Modi government has prepared the blueprint for next year’s assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.
The selection of names in the Union Cabinet from Uttar Pradesh clearly reflects the priorities of the BJP for the UP elections. Of the seven state ministers inducted into the cabinet on Wednesday, six are non-Savarna. Four of the newly inducted ministers are from different OBC caste groups.
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Anupriya Patel and Pankaj Choudhary belong to the Kurmi caste, while BL Verma is from the Lodh community and SP Singh Baghel is an OBC (Gadriya) but claims to be a Scheduled Caste. His case on this issue is pending.
Bhanu Pratap Verma is a Dalit and Kaushal Kishore is also a Dalit (Pasi community). The only upper caste is Ajay Mishra, a Brahmin.
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Interestingly, the BJP has carefully chosen to elect only non-Yadav OBCs, which means that the ruling party is deliberately trying to break OBC unity and damage the Samajwadi Party.
The cabinet expansion has also made it clear that the BJP in Uttar Pradesh will now focus on the OBCs and Dalits who form the largest segment of the electorate.
“There was no need to focus on the upper castes as we have a chief minister who is from the Thakur community and a deputy chief minister who is from the Brahmin community. The party wants to give a clear message that it wants to share the power of the classes. of the society who have not got their due,” said a party functionary.
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