SBSP chief, a serial turncoat, a record-holding BJP MLA & RLD’s SC face — UP's 4 new cabinet ministers

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After Yogi won the state polls in March 2022, 53 ministers, including 19 cabinet ministers, 14 ministers with independent charge, and 20 ministers of state, took oath with him..

Rajbhar had resigned after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and the SBSP fought the 2022 UP assembly polls as part of the Samajwadi Party(SP)-led Mahagathbandhan..

Since then, Rajbhar has been demanding ministership in the Yogi government and even declared he would not allow the notification for the 2024 Lok Sabha election till his induction...

In a dramatic move ahead of the UP assembly elections that year, Chauhan, along with OBC leaders Swami Prasad Maurya and Dharam Singh Saini, quit their ministership and joined the SP...

Having started his political career as a BJP MLA from Ghaziabad in 2007, Sharma lost to BSPs Amarpal Sharma in the 2012 state election from the adjoining Sahibabad constituency..

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