Lucknow, May 10 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath is set to expand his 54-member ministry at 3pm on Sunday by making inductions to reset caste and regional equations ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. No one is likely to be dropped from the ministry, people aware of the matter said.

Adityanath, who attended the swearing-in ceremony of BJP's first West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and five other MLAs as ministers in Kolkata early in the day, met governor Anandiben Patel at Jan Bhavan and discussed the ministry expansion issue with her soon after reaching Lucknow on Saturday evening.

"Yes, chief minister Yogi Adityanath is set to expand his ministry at about 3pm on Sunday," said functionaries aware of the develo...