Cabinet expansion would be done keeping in mind the 2027 Assembly elections and outcome of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh. Dalit and OBC leaders are likely to get prominent representation in both. Dalits are going to figure prominently. Having suffered a setback during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections but improving its performance in 10 by-elections, the party is deliberating carefully on various factors before taking a call on its new state chief and the Cabinet expansion. 

Since former state minister Jitin Prasada was elected to the Lok Sabha from Pilibhit last year, an important portfolio like the Public Works Department is with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and has not been given to any minister so far. Besides, former state minister Anoop Pradhan Valmiki was also elected as MP from the Hathras seat.