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The much-awaited expansion of the Mayawati Ministry in Uttar Pradesh will take place on October 11. Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri will administer the oath of office to new ministers at Raj Bhavan, an official communique issued here today said.
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NEW DElHI/ LUCKNOW: Sonia Gandhi’s day-long ‘‘interaction with party workers’’ in Mathura on Thursday will be first of her nine stop-overs, the idea being to revive the Cong’s sagging fortunes in UP. State incharge Motilal Vora said the interactive sessions should be completed in 2 months. ‘‘The exercise is aimed at shoring up the our base to the division and district level,” UP Congress chief Arun Kumar Singh Munna said. (ENS)  You have exhausted your
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The announcement has sparked off lobbying among the aspirants, specially in coalition partner BJP. Many MLAs, who were scheduled to go abroad with Speaker Kesari Nath Tripathi, have rescheduled their programmes.
Fifty more faces are likely to join the 24-member Ministry. A large number of them would be fresh faces and more than half would be from the BJP, party Legislature Party Leader Lalji Tandon said.
Tandon admitted that finalising the list of MLAs to be inducted would be a mind-boggling exercise. He, however, denied any differences with Mayawati over induction of tainted ex-ministers or MLAs with criminal backgrounds.
The first indication that an expansion was in the offing came from Tandon yesterday. He had on Saturday met Mayawati and conveyed his growing resentment in the BJP.
