Today at around 3:30 pm, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav will announce the first expansion of the cabinet. Yesterday, following a flurry of meetings with senior BJP leaders, including party president JP Nadda, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav confirmed this. After the meeting, Chief Minister Yadav spoke with reporters and declared that the BJP will again form a double-engine government at the center in 2024, led by Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and BJP leader JP Nadda.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Yaedav met Om Birla, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, JP Nadda, the leader of the BJP, and Union Minister Anurag Thakur in the nation’s capital earlier in the day. At Rashtrapati Bhavan, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav also had a meeting with President Droupadi Murmu. On December 22, the Chief Minister and his deputies also paid Prime Minister Narendra Modi a visit in the nation’s capital, where they spoke about a number of state development-related initiatives.
The Yadav cabinet is expected to be formed today with at least 28 ministers. Prahlad Singh Patel, a former Union Minister and MLA from Narsinghpur, Kailash Vijayvargiya, the general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Jagdish Deora, Rajendra Shukla, Gopal Bhargava, the MLA from Rahli in Sagar district, MLAs Pradyuman Singh Tomar, Krishna Gaur, Rameshwar Sharma, Kamal Marskole, Gayatri Pawar, Ghanshyam Chandravanshi, Sampatiya Uike, Dinesh Rai Munmun, Abhilash Pandey, Reeti Pathak, and Rakesh Singh are among the likely candidates.