MP cabinet expansion: Three MLAs inducted as ministers

Governor Mangubhai Patel administered the oath of office as minister to the three legislators at the Raj Bhavan on Saturday morning

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday expanded his cabinet and inducted three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs– Gauri Shankar Bisen, Rajendra Shukla and Rahul Lodhi, as ministers.

The expansion came in just months ahead of the state assembly polls scheduled for the end of this year.

Governor Mangubhai Patel administered the oath of office as minister to the three legislators at the Raj Bhavan on Saturday morning.

While Bisen and Shukla were administered oaths of office and secrecy as cabinet ministers, Lodhi was administered the oath of minister of state.

Bisen is a former minister, a seven-time MLA from Balaghat and who is also the chairman of the MP Backward Class Commission.

Shukla is also a former minister, a Brahmin leader and four-time MLA from Rewa

Both leaders were unhappy after they were not included in the cabinet in 2020.

Rahul Lodhi, a BJP MLA from Khargapur, Tikamgarh, has been included in the council of ministers for the first time.