Governor Mangubha C Patel administered the oath as he had to Mr Yadav and his two deputies, Jagdish Devda and Rajendra Shukla, in the new cabinet.



Bhopal: Former Union Minister Prahlad Patel and BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya were sworn into the Madhya Pradesh cabinet Monday afternoon.

There are only five women in new cabinet, after the BJP claimed a win largely on a women's empowerment platform and ex-Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's 'Ladli Behna Yojana' scheme. Among those sworn were Nirmala Bhuria, Narayan Kushwaha, and Nagar Singh Chouhan. Ms Bhuria was earlier the junior Health Minister and Mr Kushwaha the junior Home Minister. Tribal leader Sampatiya Uikey was sworn in, as were Vijay Shah, Karan Singh Verma, Rakesh Singh, Vishvas Sarang, Rakesh Shukla, Chaitanya Kashyap, Inder Singh Parmar, and Uday Pratap Singh.

Also added were Pradhuman Singh Tomar, who was earlier the Energy Minister; Tulsi Ram Silawat, the ex-junior Water Resources Minister; Govind Singh Rajput, the former Revenue and Transport; and Aidal Singh Kansana. 

Junior ministers (but with independent charge) are Krishna Gaur, Dharmendra Bhav Lodhi, Dilip Jaiswal, Gautam Tetwal, Lakhan Patel and Narayan Singh Pawar. And MLAs who took oath as Ministers of State are Narendra Shivaji Patel, Pratima Bagri, Dilip Ahirwar, and Radha Singh.

Madhya Pradesh's new ministers were chosen after extensive talks at the upper echelons of the BJP's central leadership, including party boss JP Nadda.