AMN /
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today inducted four news ministers. Four ministers including two cabinet ministers took oath of office and secrecy at Rajbhawan Lucknow today. Former UP minister Balram Yadav, who was sacked by the Chief Minister, apparently for facilitating merger of QED into Samajwadi Party, was taken back into the state cabinet. SP leader Narad Rai, Ravidas Mehrotra and Sharda Pratap Shukla were other ministers who were also inducted into the cabinet.
MLC Ziauddin Rizvi, who is a prominent Samajwadi Party leader from eastern UP could not take oath of cabinet minister as he was not present. While Balram Yadav and Narad Ray were made cabinet ministers, Sharda Prasad Shukla and Ravidas Mehrotra have been assigned the portfolios of minister of state with independent charges.
The portfolios will be allotted to these new ministers later. On the other hand, minister for science and technology Manoj Pandey has been sacked from the cabinet as per information given by the chief secretary.