Lucknow Mar 25 PTI Several prominent faces are missing from the Uttar Pradesh government this time as new ministers took oath at a grand swearing-in ceremony here on Friday The oath ceremony was held at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium in the presence of PM Narendra Modi and top BJP leaders Dinesh Sharma who in the previous Yogi Adityanath government held the charge of the deputy CM has been replaced by Brajesh Pathak Shrikant Sharma and Siddhartha Nath Singh also failed to make the cut The name of Satish Mahana who headed the industry department in the previous BJP government and was elected from Maharajpur in Kanpur district was missing from the list of new ministers Ramapati Shastri a BJP MLA from Mankapur in Gonda district too was left out Earlier he held the charge of the social welfare minister With UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh taking oath as a cabinet minister the post of state party chief is likely to fall vacant and a new leader may be appointed to the position a senior leader said citing the one person one post principle Among the leaders who failed to get a ministerial berth this time were Jai Pratap Singh Ram Naresh Agnihotri Ashutosh Tandon Neelkanth Tiwari and Mahendra Singh Mohsin Raza who was the lone Muslim minister in the previous state government was replaced by Danish Azad Ansari Swami Prasad Maurya Dharam Singh Saini and Dara Singh Chauhan who were ministers in the previous BJP government had quit the BJP just ahead of the Assembly polls and contested from the Opposition Samajwadi Party Ministers Mukut Bihari Verma and Swati Singh were not given ticket by the BJP in the just-concluded Assembly polls PTI NAV RDK

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 16 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday alleged that the backward classes and Dalits have understood that it's BJP's strategy to privatize everything with time and later jeopardize BR Ambedkar's Constitution and finish the reservation system.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 16 (ANI): Former minister in the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet, Dara Singh Chauhan, on Sunday joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the presence of its national president Akhilesh Yadav.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 15 (ANI): Former Uttar Pradesh Minister Swami Prasad Maurya, who resigned this week from the Yogi Adityanath government and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Assembly polls, on Friday said that former state cabinet Minister Dara Singh Chauhan will join the Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday.

Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 14 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday had 'khichdi' at the residence of a Dalit party worker, Amrit Lal Bharti on the occasion of Makar Sankranti.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 14 (ANI): Ahead of joining the Samajwadi Party (SP), the sitting BJP MLA from Shikohabad constituency of Firozabad district Mukesh Verma on Friday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to destroy the Constitution.

New Delhi [India], January 13 (ANI): Nishad Party chief Sanjay Nishad on Thursday slammed the ministers in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet who resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party weeks ahead of the Assembly polls in the state, and said that they had nothing to show for while they were going out to seek people's support once again.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 13 (ANI): Days after UP's Social Welfare Minister Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from BJP, another MLA from Bidhuna Vinay Shakya has also put down his papers on Thursday.

Bhadohi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 12 (ANI): Rubbishing reports of resignation from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Uttar Pradesh MLA Ravindra Nath Tripathi said on Wednesday that he is dedicated to the party, has not written the resignation letter, and would file an FIR against the ones behind it.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 12 (ANI): With Dara Singh Chauhan resigning as minister from Yogi Adityanath government on Wednesday, Samajwadi Paty leader Akhilesh Yadav "welcomed" him in the party through a tweet and said SP and its allies will take forward the movement for equality in the society.