Chief Minister Kamal Nath would take oath of the office here at the Jamboree Ground in the presence of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi.
These prominent leaders would attend the oath taking ceremony after a similar programme at Jaipur. The ceremony is scheduled in Bhopal at 1.30 pm.
Congress sources said that Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Supremo Mayawati will not be attending any of the oath ceremonies taking place in the Hindi heartland.
The ceremonies- first in Jaipur, followed by Bhopal and Raipur- are seen as occasions for an informal opposition get-together, the kind seen first at the oath of HD Kumaraswamy in Karnataka.
Other important leaders of the so-called Mahagathbandhan who would not attend the ceremony are- TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee and Mayawati's ally in Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav. While the Bengal Chief Minister has conveyed that she would not be able to attend due to a family emergency and dispatched a representative, neither of the two Uttar Pradesh leaders have cited any reason for their absence.
Mayawati had stepped in last week when the Congress fell a couple of seats short of majority in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath had been the one to approach Mayawati, who, deeply offended by the disagreement over seat sharing in the three states, had ruled out an alliance with the Congress.
The rest of the key opposition leaders including Chandrababu Naidu, Farooq Abdullah, Sharad Pawar and Stalin are likely to attend tomorrow's ceremonies.
The Congress has also invited Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party as part of the efforts to mend fences.
However, he has not agreed till date.