LUCKNOW, March 12 -- Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday allocated portfolios to his four newly sworn-in cabinet ministers, giving panchayati raj and minority welfare departments to Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar.

Much significance is being attached to the move of giving two important portfolios to Rajbhar who recently claimed that he was the most important minister of the Yogi government.

Other new ministers allocated portfolios include BJP MLC Dara Singh Chauhan who has been made minister for prisons, Rashtriya Lok Dal's Anil Kumar who gets science and technology and BJP's Sunil Sharma who is now minister for information technology and electronics. Governor Anandiben Patel had administered ...