Raja Bhaiyya loses prison in reshuffle

LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav late Saturday night reshuffled portfolios allotted to various ministers in his cabinet. The exercise was done to accommodate 12 new ministers inducted on Thursday as well as to change departments of some existing ministers on the basis of their performance .
While Akhilesh relieved himself of two departments out of 63 he was heading as minister and shared burden of several departments with the newly inducted 10 minister of states, prominent cabinet ministers who were stripped of their existing departments or replaced with insignificant ones included Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya and Raja Aridaman Pratap Singh.Of two departments , food & civil supplies and prison, Raja Bhaiyya, has now been left only with food & civil supplies.
Old order changeth
Reshuffled
Raja Bhaiyya, stripped of prison department, left with food & civil supplies. Newly inducted cabinet minister Rajendra Chaudhary gets prison portfolio Aridaman Singh & Durga Prasad Yadav have been swapped. Singh was till now heading transport and Yadav stamp & court fees, registration & civil defence
Newly inducted ministers of state
Ram Murti Singh Verma | Backward class welfare department Vijay Bahadur Pal | Secondary Education Alok Kumar Shakya | Technical Education Ram Sakal Gujar | Programme Implementation Manoj Kumar Pandey | Agriculture Tej Narain Pandey | Entertainment Gayatri Prasad Prajapati | Irrigation Nitin Agarwal | Medical and Health Yogesh Pratap | Basic Education
Reinstated
Controversial minister of state Vinod Kumar Singh alias Pandit gets secondary education with independent charge.