Bhopal: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Madhya Pradesh government inducted 3 more ministers – Gauri Shankar Bisen, Rajendra Shukla, and Rahul Lodhi-just months before the Assembly election. 

Madhya Pradesh governor Mangubhai Patel administered the oath of office to the three MLAs in the presence of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan.

Among the three, while Bisen and Shukla took oath as a cabinet minister, Lodhi took oath as minister of state.

Bisen, a seven-time MLA from Balaghat, is a chairman of the MP Backward Class Commission. Earlier, he served as agriculture minister in the state cabinet. 

Rajendra Shukla is a prominent Brahmin face from the Rewa-Satna division. It is said that he has been inducted into the cabinet to lure Brahmin voters, who are currently upset with the state government following the demolition of Pravesh Shukla’s house. Pravesh is accused of urinating over a tribal man. 

Rahul Lodhi is the nephew of former Chief Minister Uma Bharati. Lodhi is MLA from tikamgarh. 

After expansion, the number of ministers including the Chief Minister has increased to 34 in the state. After the formation of the Shivraj government, the cabinet has been expanded four times so far. Shivraj’s government came back after the fall of Kamal Nath’s government.

MP is scheduled to go to the polls in the last months of this year. 

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