Akhilesh Yadav, his cabinet sworn in Lucknow

 
Akhilesh Yadav, son of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, today  was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh along with 19 cabinet and 28 Ministers of state were too administered the oath.

Swearing In Ceremony of Shri Akhilesh Yadav - Samajwadi Party as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh at 11 am, March 15th, 2012 thereafter  28 Cabinet ministers sworn in by Governor B L Joshi were senior leader and Muslim face of SP Azam Khan, Mulayam Singh's brother Shivpal Singh Yadav, Ahmad Hasan, Waqar Ahmad Shah, Raja Mahendra Aridaman Singh, Ambika Chaudhary and Anand Singh.

19 others of Minister of State rank were also inducted.

Akhilesh, who appeared to give an image of breaking with the past and removing the tag of "goonda raj" associated with Samajawadi Party's earlier rule, inducted Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, against whom there are pending criminal cases of attempt to murder, kidnapping and abduction.

When asked about the induction of Raja Bhaiyya at a press conference he addressed after the swearing-in ceremony, the new Chief Minister said cases against Raja Bhaiya were politically motivated.

"You know who had slapped maximum cases against Raja Bhaiyya. If you check the dates of cases lodged against him, you will know who is behind them," Akhilesh said in an apparent reference to his predecessor Mayawati.

Raja Bhaiyya, elected as an Independent with SP support, is a fifth time member of the Assembly from Kunda.

During the election campaign, Akhilesh had denied entry to controversial don-turned politician, D P Bhaiya into the party and had even earned the displeasure of some senior leaders.

At the press conference, Akhilesh said law and order is the government's priority and responsibility. "Samajwadi Party will fulfil promises made in the manifesto.

Law and order will be our responsibility from today.

Action would be taken against officers doing injustice," he told reporters here.

Attacking the Mayawati government, Akhilesh said, "Organised corruption as happened in the previous regime never took place in the state. There were restrictions during the previous government and UP is now celebrating democracy."

Other cabinet ministers, who were sworn in, were Balram Yadav, Om Prakash Singh, Awadhsh Prasad, Parasnath Yadav, Ram Govind Chaudhary, Durga Prasad Yadav, Brahma Shanker Tripathi, Kameshwar Upadhyaya, Raja Ram Pandey, Raj Kishore Singh and Shiv Kumar Beria.

Akhilesh's ministry is a mix of old and new faces.Veterans like Azam Khan, Waqar Ahmad Shah, Shivpal Yadav, Ahmad Hasan and Ambika Chaudhary have been given cabinet berths, new faces like Abhishek Mishra, first time MLA from Lucknow north seat, has also been inducted in the ministry.

The globe is watching us and nation's common man wants his basic rights but will Akhilesh with his suave persona bring in the deried desire of common man. Million dollar question cannot be answered without watching his performance.
 Soon after taking oath, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday transferred 17 IAS and five IPS officers placing 11 senior officials considered close to his predecessor Mayawati on the waiting list.
Principal Secretary (UP reorgaisation cordination department) RM Srivastava has been made Principal Secretary (Home).Secretary (Administrative Reforms) Anita Singh and Director General (stamp and registration) Alok Kumar have been made secretaries to the Chief Minister as were Special Seretary (Labour) Pandhari Yadav and District Magistrate of Saharanpur Zubair Bin Sagir, according to official sources.Rakesh Garg, who had been awaiting posting, was made Pricipal Secretary (Trade Tax and Entertainment Tax).Officials of the previous Mayawati government, including Principal Secretary (Home) Kuwar Fateh Bahadur, Additional Cabinet Secrtary Ravindra Singh, Principal Secretaries to the former Chief Minister Netram, RP Singh, Durga Shankar Misra and Secretary to Mayawati Navneet Sehgal, Anil Sant are among those who have been kept in the waiting list.Among the PCS officers, editor of state gazetter Shambhu Singh Yadav has been made Special Secretary to the Chief Minister and Special Secretary (Medical Health) Raj Kishore Yadav was appointed estate officer.Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh cabinet, at its first meeting, on Thursday decided to provide unemployment allowance of Rs 1000 per month to over 35 years of age and laptops and computer tablets to class 12th and 10th passouts respectively. Chief Secretary Anup Misra told newspersons here.Further cabinet decided Muslim girls passing class 10 would get financial assistance of Rs 30,000 for further education or marriage without any criterion of income, Misra said adding there would be around 100,000 such girls,the scheme to cost Rs 300 crores.


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IMP to find out if Raja Bhaiyya newly elected MLA-sworn to be a minister, has a history sheet in PSt in view of his past criminal record?

A quick googly  from Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday alleged that he has 'badly cheated' people who elected him by inducting people who are 'facing serious criminal and corruption charges'.
"Several facing serious criminal and corruption charges inducted in Akhilesh Yadav. Will SP be any better than BSP?" Kejriwal tweeted.He said, "Within a week of people electing him (Akhilesh) CM, people have been badly cheated." "Time to think - wud changing parties and faces every elections help?" he asked.
Kejriwal said in 2007 people threw out SP and put BSP in power and in 2012 2012- people threw out BSP and put SP back in power."2017 - ??? How long wud this go on?" he asked.