LUCKNOW: Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, who faces eight criminal cases and was charged under the now-defunct Pota, will be in charge of Uttar Pradesh’s prison department . Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav kept as many as 50 departments to himself as he distributed portfolios among his 47 ministers on Sunday.Raja Bhaiya also holds charge of food and civil supplies, despite charges of a multi-crore scam under his watch.The 38-year-old CM kept home, vigilance, power, aviation, finance and excise among other portfolios.With 50 portfolios under him, Akhilesh Yadav has outdone Mayawati who kept 43 portfolios when she took over in 2007. Akhilesh will hold the charge of tourism, higher, secondary, technical and medical education, sugarcane development, electronics and information technology. It is believed that Akhilesh will offload some of the departments post cabinet expansion.Senior minister Azam Khan , who took oath a second time on Sunday, got parliamentary affairs, urban development, waqf, water supplies and Haj, while Mulayam Singh Yadav’s brother Shivpal got PWD and irrigation. Both Khan and Shivpal held the same portfolios in the SP’s previous regime.Mulayam’s other trusted loyalist Ahmad Hasan has again been given medical and family welfare. These two departments were headed by two ministers and made news for the NHRM scam during the BSP regime. Hasan will also take care of the department of women and child welfare.Earlier on Sunday, Azam Khan took the oath of office and secrecy for the second time after it transpired that he hadn’t take the complete oath on March 15. Four others inducted as ministers of state were elevated and given independent charge: Arvind Singh Gope, Aruna Kori, Rajendra Singh Rana and Bhagwat Sharan Gangwar. They took the oath again along with Azam.Vaqar Ahmad Shah and Ambika Chaudhary have been given labour and revenue departments while Raja Aridaman Singh will be minister of transport.Raja Mankapur, Anand Singh , who made a triumphant return to the Samajwadi Party before the elections, has been given agriculture while Balram Yadav will be the minister of Panchayati Raj. Ram Govind Chaudhary will look after basic education, child development and nutrition. Azamgarh MLA Durga Prasad Chaudhary will be minister for stamp and civil defence. Brahma Shankar Tripathi has been allotted the department of home guard and vocational education.Among the four ministers independent charge, Gope has been allotted the department of rural development. Rajendra Singh Rana and Bhagwat Sharan Gangwar have been given rural engineering and small-scale industries respectively. Aruna Kori on the other hand has been allotted the department of women welfare.Among the 24 state ministers, former IIM-Ahmedabad professor Abhishek Mishra, considered to be a part of ‘Team Akhilesh’, has been given the protocol department. This way he will remain attached to the chief minister’s office as Akhilesh has kept the department with himself.Among SP leaders from the western UP, Chitaranjan Swaroop will be Azam Khan’s deputy in parliamentary affairs, Muslim waqf, urban development and Haj departments while Moolchandra Chauhan has been given the charge of the department of tourism. Surendra Singh patel will assist Shivpal in PWD.