New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has retained as many as 40 portfolios to herself as she announced distribution of portfolios of her Cabinet in Lucknow on Thursday evening.
The new Chief Minister gave the charges of nine ministries to her close lieutinant and BSP General Secretary Naseemuddin Siddiqui and retained her top aide SC Mishra in her office.
Allocating the portfolios three days after being sworn in, Mayawati kept Home, Finance, Vigilance, Personnel and 24 other departments with herself, official sources said.
Mishra, the Brahmin face of the BSP and a key component of Mayawati's social engineering that reaped electoral success for the party, has been attached to the Chief Minister. He was sworn in as a Cabinet minister on Monday.
While Siddiqui, BSP General Secretary, has been given charge of PWD and Excise, Ramveer Upadhyay, another prominent Brahmin face and key component of BSP's social engineering, was given Energy, Lalji Verma Parliamentary Affairs and Indrajeet Saroj will head the Social Welfare Department as Cabinet ministers.
Delhi University lecturer Sudhir Goel, another close aide of Mayawati, has been given the charge of the information portfolio. Revenue has gone to Swami Prasad Maurya, Urban Development, Environment and Institutional Finance Ministry to Nakul Dubey and Agriculture has gone to Lakshmi Narain — all of whom have been named Cabinet ministers.
Portfolios of other Cabinet ministers are: Daddu Prasad (Rural Development), Thakur Jaiveer Singh (Secondary Education), Babu Singh Khushwaha (Panchyati Raj), Ram Prasad Chowdhury (Food and Civil Supplies), Rakesh Dhar Tripathi (Higher Education), Ved Ram Bhati (Employement and Labour), Phagu Chauhan (Prisons), Jagdish Narain Rai (Stamp and Registration), Dharam Singh Saini (Basic Education) and Narain Singh (Horticulture).
(With agency inputs)
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