URL copied UP Cabinet expansion on the cards: Jitin Prasada, AK Sharma may join Adityanath government Speculations are rife about a possible cabinet expansion in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the Assembly polls. According to sources, Congress turncoat Jitin Prasada could be given a place in the Yogi Adityanath government. Prasada joined the BJP on Wednesday in Delhi. He is a prominent Brahmin leader from western Uttar Pradesh. Sources said that Prasad could join the government in the Cabinet expansion. Also, AK Sharma, who joined the BJP in January this year, could be inducted into the government. A 1988 batch IAS officer, Sharma is associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the last two decades. He was PM Modi's trusted bureaucrat.