Lucknow, 10 May

(HS): On Sunday, two cabinet ministers and four state ministers were brought

into the Uttar Pradesh government as part of the second enlargement of the Yogi

Adityanath 2.0 administration, while two state ministers were upgraded and

assigned autonomous duties. The action

comes ahead of the state's assembly elections, which are set for early next

year.

Former BJP state president Bhupendra Chaudhury and

SP dissident Manoj Pandey were named cabinet ministers during a swearing-in

ceremony at Jan Bhavan. Ajit Pal Singh and Somendra Tomar have been elevated to

ministers of state with independent charge. Four new state ministers were sworn

in, including Krishna Paswan, Surendra Diler, Hansraj Vishwakarma, and Kailash

Rajput. The oath was delivered by Governor Anandiben Patel to the newly

nominated ministers.

This is the second

enlargement of the Yogi 2.0 ministry, following the first in March 2024, two

years after the government's inception. During that expansion, coalition

partner and SBSP chairman Om Prakash Rajbhar, RLD members Anil Kumar, Sunil

Kumar Sharma, and Dara Singh Chauhan, who had returned to the BJP from the SP,

were admitted.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi