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With assembly elections just six months away, the Bharatiya Janata Party has started setting the caste equation in its favour. The beginning was made on Wednesday when the Yogi Adityanath government gave plum posts to BJP leaders in the Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribe (SC&ST) Commission.
Governor Anandiben Patel approved the 18-member committee which includes a chairman, two vice-chairmen and 15 members.
Rambabu Harit of Agra has been made chairman of the commission while Mithlesh Kumar of Shahjahanpur and Ramnaresh Paswan of Sonebhadra have been made vice-chairpersons.
The members of the Commission are Kamlesh Pasi (Varanasi), Teejaram (Azamgarh), Sheshnath Acharya (Ballia), Anita Siddhartha (Jaunpur), Ram Asare (Farrukhabad), Shyam Aheria (Mathura), Manoj Sonkar (Varanasi), Shravan Gond (Sonebhadra), Amresh Chandra (Sonebhadra), Kishanlal (Kanpur), KK Raj (Etawah), Ram Singh Valmiki (Lucknow), Ramesh Toofani (Lucknow), Om Prakash Nayak (Aligarh) and Sadhvi Gita Pradhan (Sambhal). The appointments are for one year or attainment of 65 years, whichever is earlier.