Months before Uttar Pradesh goes to the polls, the Yogi Adityanath government’s Cabinet expansion on Sunday reveals a calibrated social and political balancing exercise, reinforcing its outreach among non-Yadav OBCs and Dalits, while simultaneously sending a signal to Brahmins amid murmurs of discontent within sections of the community. The BJP drafted in six new ministers in the state government and elevated two Ministers of State to MoS Independent Charge. Of the six new inductions, three are from OBC communities, two are from the Scheduled Castes, and one is a Brahmin leader who had crossed over from the Samajwadi Party (SP). The move comes at a time when the SP has aggressively pushed its “PDA” plank — an acronym for its outreach to Pichhda (OBCs), Dalits, Alpsankhyak (minorities) — attempting to consolidate backward classes, Dalits, and minorities against the BJP ahead of the Assembly elections.…