UP Cabinet Expansion: Jitin Prasada Gets Technical Edu Dept, Chhatrapal Gangwar to Head Revenue

In the portfolio allocation of the recently inducted leaders in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet, cabinet minister Jitin Prasad has been given the responsibility of technical education department, while minister of state Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar has been given the command of revenue department.

Sanjeev Kumar will be in charge of Social Welfare Department, Scheduled Castes and Tribes Welfare Department. And MoS Dinesh Khatik has been given the responsibility of Jal Shakti and Flood Control Department.

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MoS Paltu Ram has been assigned the Department of Sainik Welfare, Home Guard, Provincial Guard Dal and Civil Defense; And Dr. Sangeeta Balwant has been given the responsibility of cooperative department. MoS Dharamveer Prajapati will head the Industrial Development Department.

Former Congress leader Prasad, BJP leaders Chhatrapal Singh, Paltu Ram and four others took oath as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday. expanded his cabinet Before the 2022 state assembly elections.

Ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party is attempting to balance caste and regional aspirations and appease the non-Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav SCs, who supported the party in the last three elections.

The swearing-in ceremony took place in the Gandhi Auditorium of Raj Bhavan.

The names were shortlisted last month by Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a 3.5-hour meeting held at his residence, which was attended by BJP chief JP Nadda, Yogi Adityanath and senior party functionaries Sunil Bansal and Swatantra Dev Singh.

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