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Week before budget, UP gets a new finance minister

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Posted: Feb 05, 2008 at 2247 hrs IST

Lucknow, February 4 A week before the presentation of the budget, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati divested Kamal Kant Gautam of the finance portfolio and put parliamentary affairs minister Lalji Verma in charge. The budget is slated for February 12.

Gautam has been allotted the departments of agriculture education and agriculture research. Verma has been divested of medical education and handicap welfare, which Mayawati has retained herself.

Energy minister Ram veer Upadhaya will be left with only one department. His Comprehensive Rural Development Department has been abolished. Jaiveer Singh, MoS with independent charge, is left with tubewell and life canal department. His Flood Control and Drainage Planning Department has been abolished.

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