Rajbhar, Chauhan may find a berth in Yogi Cabinet soon

Lucknow The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government is preparing for a cabinet expansion to accommodate new entrants into the alliance and party. The date will be finalised after Tuesday’s meeting of the NDA. Dara Singh Chauhan, who recently resigned from the Ghosi Assembly seat and the Samajwadi Party (SP), joined the BJP on Monday. Chauhan was cabinet minister in Yogi government’s first term and quit the BJP, a few days before the Assembly polls 2022 to join the SP.

He is a likely entrant into the council of ministers. Meanwhile, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party's (SBSP) Om Prakash Rajbhar could also be back in the Yogi government as minister. Rajbhar, too, had joined hands with SP to contest the 2022 Assembly polls. The SBSP won six seats, which also included Mau, won by mafia don Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas Ansari. Rajbhar, however was not comfortable with “Akhilesh style of politics” and began attacking the SP chief.