Uttar Pradesh Cabinet expansion: OP Rajbhar, RLD's Anil Kumar among four new ministers — who are they?

Uttar Pradesh Cabinet expansion: The Uttar Pradesh government expanded its Cabinet on Tuesday. Four new minister took oath as ministers. These included Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) MLA Anil Kumar and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Dara Singh Chauhan and Sunil Kumar Sharma.

The of Uttar Pradesh Governor and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The ceremony was at Raj Bhavan in Lucknow on Tuesday.

After taking in oath as minister, RLD leader Anil Kumar thanked his party chief Jayant Chaudhary, and . "This is a big responsibility, and I will try to work with honesty. We will work towards winning all 80 (Lok Sabha) seats here (in UP) and fulfil PM's target of 400 seats," he .

Meanwhile, BJP's Sunil Kumar Sharma , "The responsibility that has been given to me by the Chief Minister and the party will be carried out responsibly. I will do what I learnt while being in the party...In Lok Sabha elections, we will win all 80 seats this time..."

> Sunil Kumar Sharma: He is a . He was elected for the first time as the Member of the Fifteenth UP Legislative Assembly in 2007. 2010-2012, he was the member of the Joint Committee on Women and Child Development. In 2017, elected as an MLA for the second time. He won the Sahibabad seat by a record margin in the 2017 and 2022 UP polls.

> Dara Singh Chauhan: Chauhan was originally in the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). He joined the SP before the 2022 UP polls. He later returned to the BJP. He represents Nonia, a most backward caste in east UP. Chauhan was elected as an MLA from Ghosi as an SP candidate in the 2022 . He was made a minister in the first Yogi government between 2017 and 2022.

> Anil Kumar: He is an RLD MLA from Purkazi in