UP cabinet reshuffle: Narain gets vocational edu portfolio

In a minor reshuffle in the state cabinet, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has changed the portfolio of agriculture minister Chaudhary Laxmi Narain, an official spokesman said in Lucknow.

In a minor reshuffle in the state cabinet, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has changed the portfolio of agriculture minister Chaudhary Laxmi Narain, an official spokesman said in Lucknow on Sunday.

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Laxmi Narain has been given charge of vocational education, a department which till now was being held by the Chief Minister herself, he said.

Naseemuddin Siddiqui, who is already holding portfolios of departments like PWD and Excise, has been given additional charge of agriculture department as well.