Mulayam Singh Yadav appoints Gayatri Prasad Prajapati Samajwadi Party national secretary

LUCKNOW (INDIA): Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today appointed controversial Uttar Pradesh Cabinet minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati as the party’s national secretary.nnPrajapati has been appointed Samajwadi Party’s national secretary, a senior party leader said here.nnPrajapati is the Cabinet minister holding the Transport portfolio department in the Akhilesh Yadav government.nnHe was sacked by Akhilesh in September after complaints of corruption in the mining department which was under his charge, but was again inducted a few days later.nnPrajapati is considered close to Mulayam Singh Yadav.nn nnSource: Press Trust of India