Scindia Stamp: MP Cabinet Inducts 28 More Ministers
Twenty-eight Ministers, who joined the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh, were administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Anandiben Patel at Raj Bhawan in Bhopal on Thursday.
Notably, this is the second cabinet expansion since Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan returned to the helm of state affairs on March 23. He had earlier only inducted five ministers in the cabinet in April.
The leaders who became a part of the cabinet are, Gopal Bhargava, Vijay Shah, Jagdish Devdha, Bisahulal Singh, Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Bhupendra Singh, Adal Singh Kansana, Brijendra Pratap Singh, Vishwas Sarang, Imarti Devi, Dr Prabhuram Chaudhary, Mahendra Singh Sisodia, Pradhumn Singh Tomar, Prem Singh Patel, Om Prakash Sakhlecha, Usha Thakur, Arvind Bhadoriya, Dr Mohan Yadav, Hardeep Singh Dang, Rajvardhan Singh, Prem Singh Dattigaon, Bharat Singh Kushwaha, Inder Singh Parmar, Ram Khelwan Patel, Ramkishore Kanware, Brijendra Singh Yadav, Girraj Dandotiya, Suresh Dhakad and OPS Bhadoriya.
Soon after the expansion, BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia launched an attack on Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh and Kamal Nath accusing them of going back on promises to people of Madhya Pradesh.
“Tiger abhi zinda hai (Tiger is still alive),” Scindia said in an apparent indication to his win in the induction of 28 ministers, seen as his loyalists.
“I don’t need any certificate from Kamal Nath nor Digvijaya Singh. The facts are before the people how they looted the state in 15 months. They have taken everything for themselves. They (people) have also seen their history of going back on promises. But I would only like to tell them ‘tiger abhi zinda hai (tiger is alive),” Scindia told reporters here.
Earlier today, Scindia had said that the cabinet is not a leader’s team but that of people and will serve them.
“This (the Cabinet) is not any leader’s team, but the team of the public. They are not the government’s ministers but public servants. We will strive for serving the people and will provide services to the last person in the society. In 100 days of its rule the Shivraj Singh government has battled corona, helped the farmers in every possible way. We will continue doing this in the next four years,” Scindia said.
ANI
