BJP legislature party chief and MLA from Ujjain South, Mohav Yadav, has sworn in as the Madhya Pradesh chief minister on Wednesday. The 58-year-old leader was administered the oath of office by Governor Mangubhai Patel at the Lal Parade Ground in state capital Bhopal.
BJP legislators Jagdish Devda and Rajendra Shukla were sworn in as the deputy chief ministers by the governor.
The event was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president J P Nadda, and Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Yadav’s predecessor.
Also present at the occasion were Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, and Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.
Who is Mohan Yadav
Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, an OBC leader and three-time BJP MLA, who is considered close to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), started his political career when he was a student and climbed up the ladder to occupy the top post in Madhya Pradesh.
The 58-year-old MLA from Ujjain South took oath on Wednesday as the chief minister of MP.
He is the state’s fourth OBC chief minister from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2003, after Uma Bharti, Babulal Gaur and Shivraj Singh Chouhan. He is also the second CM from Ujjain, after Prakash Chandra Sethi of the Congress.
Yadav’s appointment as chief minister also marks end of the era of BJP stalwart and four-time CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who dominated the state’s politics for close to two decades.
Besides holding PhD, LLB and MBA degrees, Yadav is also known to possess sword-fighting skills.
The surprise elevation of Yadav, who was not among contenders for the CM’s post, is being seen as a move by the BJP to win over the numerically significant Other Backward Classes (OBC) community in other parts of the country ahead of the Lok Sabha polls due next year.
The OBCs account for more than 48 per cent of Madhya Pradesh’s population and form the core voter base for the saffron party.
Yadav was born on March 25, 1965, in Ujjain, the city which is synonymous with the famous Mahakaleshwar Temple, one of the 12 Jyotirlings.
He began his political career as joint secretary of the Madhav Science College Ujjain in 1982 and was later elected as its president in 1984.
