When Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expanded his cabinet on Sunday, the reshuffle was not merely about governance, representation or rewarding loyalists. It was an unmistakable political signal that the Bharatiya Janata Party has begun preparing in earnest for the 2027 Assembly elections — and that it has taken the Samajwadi Party’s “PDA” challenge seriously.
The arithmetic of the expansion tells the story.
