The state government has appointed retired IAS officer ICP Keshari and Ajay Kumar Pandey of Mumbai as media advisors to the chief minister. The tenure of Keshari and Pandey will be till the tenure of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. The General Administration Department has issued orders for the appointment of both.
The appointment of Keshari and Pandey is considered important in view of next year's assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. Both of them will be entrusted with the responsibility of media management in the election year. During the previous tenure of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, a principal secretary was handling this responsibility. This time no such appointment had been made so far.
With the beginning of the New Year, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will hand over the roadmap of self-reliant Madhya Pradesh under Mission 2023 to his ministers and officials. For this, a meeting has been called at the Chief Minister's residence on January 2, 2023, which will include all the cabinet and ministers of state present in the capital, while ministers from outside the capital, all divisional commissioners, collectors, inspector generals of police (range), commissioners of police and all superintendents of police will join virtually.