BJP national vice-president and Uttar Pradesh in-charge Radha Mohan Singh on Sunday dismissed the possibility of a cabinet reshuffle in the Yogi Adityanath government.

His remarks came after a meeting with Governor Anandiben Patel here, which he described as a formality.

Asked about the possibility of a reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh, Singh told reporters "there is nothing as such".

"After becoming the (party's) in-charge of UP, I have not met the Governor. When she was the chief minister (of Gujarat), I was the Agriculture minister, I had an old association with Gujarat. Since, I could not meet her in the past six months, hence I met her today. This was a personal meeting and a formality," Singh said.

Praising Adityanath, he said, “Everyone believes in his mettle. Everyone knows that he has done the work of Corona recently.”

He said the Uttar Pradesh government and the organisation are moving very strongly.

"The strongest organisation and most popular government are working in UP," Singh said.

Ironically, there had been reports of despair and helplessness and widespread criticism of the Adityanath government over its tackling of the pandemic that had apparently prompted the central leadership to rush BJP national secretary B.L. Santhosh and former Union minister Radha Mohan Singh to Uttar Pradesh for the stock-taking exercise. Reports of the central leadership mulling a reshuffle were also doing rounds.

Several of the BJP’s own ministers and MLAs have been resentful of the administration’s handling of the situation.