Mayawati, the leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday for inducting new ministers into the cabinet ahead of the state’s assembly elections next year. Mayawati said on Twitter that the state administration is attempting to attract voters based on caste by appointing new members to the cabinet.
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“It would have been better if whomever was named a minister by the BJP yesterday to mobilise votes on the basis of caste in UP did not take it. Because the code of conduct for elections will be applied here by the time, they grasp their separate ministries and desire to do anything “The following is an approximate translation of Mayawati’s tweet in Hindi.
Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister, inaugurated seven new ministers into his cabinet on Sunday, including former Congress politician Jitin Prasada, who defected to the BJP in June. Sangeeta Balwant, Dinesh Khatik, Dharamveer Singh, Paltu Ram, Sanjeev Kumar, and Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar were appointed to the Uttar Pradesh cabinet.
The constitutional limit of 60 ministers in the state has been achieved due to the addition of additional ministers. After 2019, this is the second time the council of ministers has been expanded in Uttar Pradesh.
Mayawati warned voters to be careful of the Yogi Adityanath administration’s double standards, claiming that the UP-chief minister has made no measures toward the development and upliftment of society and that the government has halted most of the BSP’s projects in this area.
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Only Jitin Prasada, one of the seven new ministers, comes from the Brahmin group. According to experts, Prasada’s appointment as the state’s latest Brahmin minister is part of the BJP’s efforts to attract the group. Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, Satish Chandra, Ram Naresh Agnihotri, Shrikant Sharma, and others are Brahmin leaders in the present government.
