Prahlad Patel, Kailash Vijayvargiya among 28 inducted as Madhya Pradesh miners

BHOPAL: Twenty-eight legislators including former union miner Prahlad Patel and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kailash Vijayvargiya were inducted into Madhya Pradesh chief miner Mohan Yadav’s council of miners on Monday. Madhya Pradesh governor Mangubhai Patel and chief miner Mohan Yadav pose for a group photo with the newly inducted miners of the council of miners (PTI) Governor Mangubhai Patel adminered the oath of office and secretary to 18 cabinet miners, six miners of state with independent charge and four miners of state. Five women legislators have been appointed to the 31-member strong council of miners. The maximum strength of the Madhya Pradesh council of miners, which has 230 MLAs, can be 35 including the chief miners. Wrap up the year gone & gear up for 2024 with HT! Click here Apart from Prahlad Patel, former members of parliament Rakesh Singh and Rao Uday Pratap Singh, who resigned from parliament after winning the assembly election, were also sworn-in as cabinet miners. Karan Singh Verma, Nagar Singh Chauhan, Samapatiya Uike, Eidal Singh Kansana, Pradyuman Singh Tomar, Inder Singh Parmar, Nirmala Bhuria, Tulsi Silawat, Vijay Shah, Vishwas Sarang, Govind Singh Rajput, Narayan Singh Kushwaha, Rakesh Shukla and Chetan Kashyap took oath as cabinet miners. Krishna Gaur, Dharmendra Lodhi, Dilip Jaiswal, Gautam Tetwal, Lakhan Patel and Narayan Panwar took oath as miner of state (independent charge). Radha Singh, Pratima Bagri, Dilip Ahirwar and Narendra Shivaji Patel took oath as miner of states. State BJP leaders said the party had tried to maintain a balance between different castes and regions. There are 12 miners from other backward classes, four miners from the scheduled caste community, four miners from scheduled tribe community and eight miners from the general category. Regionwise, there are four miners from Gwalior-Chambal belt, four are from Bundelkhand, three miners are from Vindhya region, seven from Malwa and Nimar, six from central region and four are from Mahakaushal region, a BJP leader said. The BJP won the MP elections bagging 163 of the 230 seats and the Congress got 66 with one seat going to an independent candidate Mohan Yadav, 58, a third-time MLA from the Ujjain South seat, and his two deputies, Jagdish Deoda and Rajendra Shukla, were sworn in on December 13. Yadav belongs to other backward classes (OBC), a group that is a key constituent of the BJP’s rainbow Hindu coalition.