Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday expanded his Ministry by inducting 19 Cabinet Ministers and four Ministers of State. Governor Ram Naresh Yadav administered oath of office and secrecy to newly-appointed 19 Cabinet Ministers and four Ministers of State at the Raj Bhavan here on Saturday. Official sources said that the portfolios to the newly-inducted Ministers in the Cabinet would be allotted on Monday.
The Governor administered oath to Cabinet Ministers Babulal Gaur, Jayant Malaiya, Gopal Bhargava, Gaurishankar Shejwar, Kailash Vijayvargiya, Sartaj Singh, Narottam Mishra, Kunwar Vijay Shah, Gaurishankar Bisen, Umashankar Gupta, Kusum Singh Mehdele, Yashodhara Raje Scincia, Paras Chandra Jain, Rajendra Shukla, Antar Singh Arya, Rampal Singh, Gyan Singh, Maya Singh, Bhupendra Singh Thakur and Ministers of State Deepak Joshi, lal Singh Arya, Sharad Jain and Surendra Patwa.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, former Chief Minister and MP Kailash Joshi, former Chief Minister Sundarlal Patwa, BJP General Secretary and in-charge of Madhya Pradesh Ananth Kumar, State BJP President Narendra Singh Tomar, Satyanarayan Jatia, Raghunandan Sharma, BJP organising secretary Arvind Menon, general secretary in-charge of Rajasthan Kaptan Singh Solanki, Bhopal Mayor Krishna Gaur, MlAs, chairpersons of corporations and boards, Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa, DGP Nandan Dube, senior officers of administration and police, journalists and distinguished citizens were present on the occasion. Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa conducted the oath ceremony. In the Cabinet formed, seven new faces have been made ministers, while four legislators who were ministers before 2008 have been inducted in the cabinet.