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
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.
Chhattisgarh new chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai
Vijay Sharma and Arun Sao will serve as the deputies to Vishnu Deo Sai. Former chief minister Raman Singh will be the Speaker.
The party took a week to finalise the names of the CMs and the deputy CMs as it put forward a new line of leaders jettisoning the expected names that were doing the rounds.
Source: Hindustan Times