Akhilesh Yadav Expands UP Cabinet, Re-inducts 3 Sacked Ministers

Akhilesh Yadav was embarrassed by the swearing-in of the ministers he had sacked earlier.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.(Photo: The Quint)

• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav expanded his cabinet on Monday for the eighth time since he assumed office in March 2012. Ten ministers were inducted on Monday, of which seven were accorded the cabinet rank and three were made ministers of state.
  
  
• The swearing-in of ministers – including Gayatri Prasad Prajapati, Manoj Pandey and Shivakant Ojha, who were all sacked by the Chief Minister earlier – was conducted at Raj Bhavan by Governor Ram Naik.
  
  
• Akhilesh Yadav, who won public accolade for sacking the ministers, has been embarrassed by the swearing-in of Gayatri Prajapati, whose re-induction in the state cabinet was announced by his father and Samajwadi Party chairman Mulayam Singh Yadav a few days back.
  
  
• Other ministers, who were also sworn-in, included Ravidas Mehrotra, Narendra Verma, Ziya-ud-din Rizvi, Shankhlal Majhi, Riyaz Ahmad and Yaseer Shah.
  

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(With IANS inputs)