Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Monday held his first-ever cabinet expansion.
BJP stalwarts Kailash Vijayvargiya and Prahlad Singh Patel are also among the ministers who took oath.
A total of 28 BJP leaders took oath, including six ministers of state (independent charge) and four state ministers. Pradhuman Singh Tomar and Vishwas Sarang are the other two MP stalwarts to have been included in the Cabinet of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav.
18 Cabinet ministers and 10 ministers of state took oath:
Vijay Shah, Karan Singh Verma, Rakesh Singh, Uday Pratap Singh, Sampatia Uikey, Tulsiram Silawat, Aidal Singh Kansana, Govind Singh Rajput, Vishvas Sarang, Gautam Tetwal, Narayan Singh Panwar, Narendra Shivaji Patel, Nirmala Bhuria, Narayan Singh Kushwaha, Nagar Singh Chouhan and Pradyumna Singh Tomar.
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Earlier today, CM Yadav said the members of the state cabinet would take oath at around 3.30 pm today. He had met Governor Mangubhai C Patel at Raj Bhawan in Bhopal.
"At 3:30 pm today, the Governor will administer the oath to the members of our new cabinet. Under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP National Chief JP Nadda, state BJP chief VD Sharma, and all senior party leaders, the new cabinet will work for the betterment of the state," CM Yadav had said.
"The new cabinet will work for the betterment of the state under the guidance of Prime Minister Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda, and state party chief VD Sharma," stated the CM after meeting Nadda in New Delhi on Sunday evening.
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Earlier, the Madhya Pradesh cabinet under Yadav had two deputy chief ministers, Rajendra Shukla and Jagdish Devda. The maximum strength of the council of ministers in the state, with 230 MLAs, can be 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 BJP chief JP Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah," asserted Yadav on Sunday.
In the state assembly elections held last month, the BJP secured 163 seats, and the Congress secured 66. Yadav, along with Shukla and Devda, took the oath as chief minister and deputy chief ministers, respectively, on December 13.
