MP: The CM adds three new ministers to his Cabinet

Three months before the important state assembly elections, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan of Madhya Pradesh added three new ministers to his cabinet on Saturday.
Rahul Lodhi, Gaurishankar Bisen, and Rajendra Shukla have been appointed as new ministers.
At a ceremony conducted at the Governor House in Bhopal at about 9:00 am, the three ministers were sworn in by Madhya Pradesh Governor Mangubhai Patel.

Senior MLAs Rajendra Shukla and Gaurishankar Bisen have both served as Cabinet ministers in the past.

Rahul Lodhi is a rookie BJP legislator. He is Uma Bharti’s nephew, a former MP chief minister. It has startled a few people that he was appointed to the government.

According to BJP insiders, the goal is to appeal to the substantial OBC and Lodh caste voting blocs in the Bundelkhand and Gwalior area.

Another OBC politician from the naxalite-affected Balaghat area in the Mahakaushal region is Gaurishakar Bisen. He was a Lok Sabha MP once and an MLA seven times. He now serves as the MP Backward Classes Commission’s chairperson.

Since 2003, Rajendra Shukla has served as an MLA for four consecutive terms. In 2013, he served as the MP’s minister of electricity. Shukla, a prominent Brahmin leader in the BJP in the Vindhya area and a native of Rewa, was born.

The BJP’s current standing in the area is also not looking very bright, and by adding Shukla to the Cabinet, the party hopes to win over general category voters and draw in the substantial Brahmin population in the Vindhya region.

The MP Cabinet currently contains 34 ministers, including the MP CM, as a result of this enlargement. The Cabinet may only have a maximum of 35 members, or 15% of the 230 seats in the state parliament, hence one place is still open.

In January 2021, the preceding Cabinet expansion was completed.

In response to the expanded Cabinet, MP Congress leader Kamal Nath said that corruption, not the Cabinet, is expanding.

Even if the BJP replaces the whole Cabinet immediately, according to the former Congress MP CM, it would still lose the assembly elections.

Elections for the MP Assembly will take place in November of this year.