Nearly 28 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including heavyweights Kailash Vijayvargiya and Prahlad Patel, were inducted as ministers in the Madhya Pradesh government as part of the cabinet expansion on December 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Monday, former Union Minister Prahlad Patel and BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya were among the 28 ministers sworn into the Madhya Pradesh cabinet. Reportedly, among the 28, 18 ministers will hold cabinet berths. The other 10 ministers will be junior ministers or Ministers of State. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reportedly, there are only five women in the new cabinet, after the BJP claimed a win largely on a women’s empowerment platform and former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Ladli Behna Yojana scheme. Nearly, 11 members of the new cabinet are from OBC or Other Backward Classes, underscoring the party\u2019s effort to balance caste arithmetic ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Governor Mangubha C Patel administered the oath as he had to Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and his two deputies, Jagdish Devda and Rajendra Shukla, the BJP’s Scheduled Caste and Brahmin faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The others sworn in were Nirmala Bhuria, Narayan Singh Kushwaha, and Nagar Singh Chouhan. Nirmala Bhuria was earlier the junior Health Minister and Narayan Singh Kushwaha was the junior Home Minister. In addition, tribal leader Sampatiya Uikey was also added to the new cabinet, as were Vijay Shah, Karan Singh Verma, Rakesh Singh, and Uday Pratap Singh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pradhuman Singh Tomar, who was earlier the Energy Minister; Tulsi Ram Silawat, the ex-junior Water Resources Minister; Govind Singh Rajput, the former Revenue and Transport; and Aidal Singh Kansana were also inducted into the Madhya Pradesh cabinet. All the four aforesaid ministers were among the 22 who supported ex-Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia when he quit the Congress in 2020, triggering the fall of Kamal Nath’s government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new minister\u2019s to the Madhya Pradesh cabinet were chosen after extensive talks at the upper echelons of the BJP’s central leadership, including party President JP Nadda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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