Lucknow: BSP state unit President Swami
Prasad Maurya, who won the recent by-election to Padrauna
assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh, was today inducted as a
cabinet minister in the Mayawati government, official sources
said.
After BSP's grand success in the recently concluded
by-elections in which the party won nine of the 11 assembly
seats, Chief Minister Mayawati included one more minister in
her cabinet this evening taking its strength to 52.
Governor B L Joshi administered the oath of office to
Maurya, who is considered close to Mayawati, at Raj Bhawan.
Names of more BSP leaders were doing the rounds but
Mayawati included only Maurya.
Eight more ministerial berths are still vacant in
Mayawati's government.
Bureau Report
First Published: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 19:11