The new Madhya Pradesh Cabinet expanded today (Monday). A total of 28 BJP leaders took oath as ministers today at a ceremony held at Raj Bhawan. As many as 18 leaders including Pradhuman Singh Tomar, Prahlad Singh Patel, Kailash Vijayvargiya and Vishwas Sarang took oath as cabinet ministers. Six leaders took oath as Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and four leaders took oath as state Ministers.
Notably, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav had to visit Delhi thrice to finalise the names of cabinet ministers. CM Mohan Yadav met Prime Minister Modi, Amit Shah, JP Nadda and all the BJP leaders and when the names of all the ministers were finalised, he returned to Bhopal yesterday.
Ministers who are inducted in Cabinet are
- Praduman Singh Tomar
- Tulsi Silavat
- Edal Singh Kasana
- Narayan Singh Kushwaha
- Vijay Shah
- Rakesh Singh
- Prahlad Patel
- Kailash Vijayvargiya
- Karan Singh Verma
- Property Uike
- Uday Pratap Singh
- Nirmala Bhuria
- Vishwas Sarang
- Govind Singh Rajput
- Inder Singh Parmar
- Nagar Singh Chauhan
- Chaitanya Kashyap
- Rakesh Shukla
- Minister of State (Independent Charge)
- Krishna Gaur
- Dharmendra Lodhi
- Dilip Jaiswal
- Gautam Tetwal
- Lakhan Patel
- Narayan Pawar
- State Ministers
- Radha Singh
- Pratima Bagri
- Dilip Ahirwar
- Narendra Shivaji Patel
He announced the expansion of his Cabinet after meeting BJP president JP Nadda in New Delhi on Sunday evening.
He, however, did not provide details of the number of inductees in the council of ministers.
The MP cabinet headed by Yadav has two deputy chief ministers- Rajendra Shukla and Jagdish Devda.
MP may have maximum 35 ministers
The state, which has 230 MLAs, may have the maximum strength of the Council of ministers 35, including the CM.
"After clinching a landslide victory under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, our double engine government will move ahead under his leadership and that of JP Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah," the chief minister said.
Yadav took oath as chief minister on December 13 along with Shukla and Devda who were sworn in as Deputy CMs. In the assembly elections held last month, the BJP won 163 seats and Congress 66.
(With PTI inputs)
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