BJP leader Mohan Yadav on Wednesday (December 13) took oath as the 19th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and various BJP state chief ministers. This transition marked Yadav's emergence as the Chief Minister, succeeding the veteran Shivraj Singh Chouhan for an unprecedented fifth term in office.

 

 

Accompanying Yadav's oath-taking, two deputy chief ministers, Rajendra Shukla and Jagdish Devda, also stepped into their roles.

1. Mohan Yadav (58), a three-time MLA from Ujjain South, had defeated the rival Congress candidate by a margin of 12,941 votes.

 

2. Yadav served as the education minister in the government under Chouhan.

 

3. Mohan Yadav is considered to be close to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) & Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)

 

4. Yadav hails from the Other Backward Classes (OBC) community which accounts for more than 48 per cent of the state's population.

 

5. Mohan Yadav holds a degree in law, MA, BSc and has an MBA and a PhD.

 

Ahead of the ceremony, the 58-year-old Yadav embarked on a visit to a temple in Bhopal and paid homage at the state BJP office to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, a foundational member of the Jana Sangh, and BJP's ideological stalwart, Syama Prasad Mookerjee.

 

In the recent November 17 assembly elections, the BJP clinched a resounding victory in Madhya Pradesh, securing 163 seats out of the total 230-member assembly. In contrast, the Congress party trailed, securing a distant second place with 66 seats.