Mohan Yadav named Madhya Pradesh chief miner
Three-time MLA Mohan Yadav was on Monday named as the new Madhya Pradesh chief miner,succeeding four-time CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stormed back to power in the state and wrested it from the Congress in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The announcement is the second in the three states. Yadav, MLA from Ujjain, was the higher education miner in the previous state cabinet led outgoing chief miner Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Madhya Pradesh’s new chief minstMohan Yadav being greeted outgoing CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan and BJP state president VD Sharma in Bhopal on Monday. (PTI) Yadav was picked for the top post at a BJP legislature party meeting held in Bhopal 10 days after the election results were announced. His predecessor Shivraj Singh Chouhan earlier maintained that he was not in the race for the chief miner’s post. The BJP contested the 2023 assembly elections without a chief minerial candidate with Prime Miner Narendra Modi leading the campaign. Stay tuned with breaking news on HT Channel on Facebook. Join Now Outgoing finance miner and two-time MLA from Mandsaur, Jagdish Devda, and outgoing public relation miner MLA from Rewa, Rajendra Shukla, have been elected as the deputy chief miners. Former union agriculture miner Narendra Singh Tomar has been elected as the Speaker of the MP assembly. In the assembly of 230 members, the BJP won 163 seats while the Congress won only 66 seats in the election held on November 17. The results were announced on December 3. In Monday’s meeting, BJP observers including Haryana chief miner, Manohar Lal Khattar, OBC Morcha national president, Dr K Laxman, and national secretary and tribal leader, Asha Lakra, discussed the probable names for the CM’s post with the MLAs. Earlier, dancing himself from the race for the CM’s post, Chouhan had said, “I will continue to serve the residents of MP as their brother and maternal uncle which is a much higher post.” PM Modi had held 14 public meetings during the run up to the election and the poll campaign was led union home miner Amit Shah. ABOUT THE AUTHOR She is a senior reporter based at Bhopal. She covers higher education, social issues, youth affairs, woman and child development related issues, sports and business & industries. …view detail
