Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh CMs will have two deputies each who will also be sworn in today.
The new chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh Mohan Yadav and Vishnu Deo Sai will take oath on Wednesday in the presence of PM Modi and other senior BJP leaders. After the suspense over the chief ministers’ names ended with BJP announcing their unusual CM choices, now there are speculations over the cabinet berths. This will likely end with today’s swearing-in events at the two states. Rajasthan chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma will take oath on December 15.
Madhya Pradesh’s new CM Mohan Yadav
58-year-old Mohan Yadav is a three-time MLA and a prominent OBC leader. He as the new chief minister surprised many as all calculations over the CM probables went awry. Mohan Yadav is close to RSS, was first elected as an MLA in 2013 from Ujjain South and retained the constituency in 2018 and 2023. An LLB, MBA and PhD-holder, Mohan Yadav was the higher education minister of Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s cabinet.
Mohan Yadav will have two deputies — Jagdish Devda and Rajendra Shukla. Narendra Singh Tomar will be Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan who led the BJP to win in Madhya Pradesh with a landslide majority said he is confident that under the leadership of the new chief minister, the state will progress. “I would rather die than go and ask something for myself. I won’t go to Delhi,” the outgoing chief minister said.