Expansion of 5-member Madhya Pradesh cabinet in the offing this week

More ministers in MP

The expansion of the five-member Madhya Pradesh cabinet is in the offing this week. The pandemic and a lack of consensus within the Bharatiya Janata Party on the selection had deferred it. Last week, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had a meeting on the matter with the party’s state unit president, V D Sharma, and state General Secretary (Organisation) Suhas Bhagat to finalise the list of the possible new ministers. Twenty/25 new ministers are expected to be sworn in during the much-awaited expansion. At least 10 candidates among them would be Jyotiraditya Scindia’s loyalists, who had