{"id":321431,"date":"2020-03-23T18:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321431"},"modified":"2020-03-23T18:34:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:34:51","slug":"shivraj-singh-chouhan-takes-oath-as-madhya-pradesh-chief-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/shivraj-singh-chouhan-takes-oath-as-madhya-pradesh-chief-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Shivraj Singh Chouhan takes oath as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321432 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200323-235319__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200323-235319__01.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200323-235319__01-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200323-235319__01-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200323-235319__01-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200323-235319__01-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200323-235319__01-696x494.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200323-235319__01-1068x757.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200323-235319__01-592x420.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/>Senior BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh CM\u00a0Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday took oath as the Chief Minister of the state for the fourth time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Shivraj after he took oath as CM, &#8220;Congratulations to Shri @ChouhanShivraj Ji on taking oath as CM of Madhya Pradesh. He is an able and experienced administrator who is extremely passionate about MP\u2019s development. Best wishes to him for taking the state to new heights of progress,&#8221; PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Friday resigned from CM post, hours ahead of a Supreme Court-ordered trust vote, thereby paving way for the opposition BJP to stake claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Nath submitted his resignation to Governor Lalji Tandon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On March 11, Jyotiraditya Scindia joined BJP, ending his 18-year association with Congress. At least 22 MLAs of Congress resigned after Scindia\u2019s exit and later joined BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh CM\u00a0Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday took oath as the Chief Minister of the state for the fourth time. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Shivraj after he took oath as CM, &#8220;Congratulations to Shri @ChouhanShivraj Ji on taking oath as CM of Madhya Pradesh. He is an able and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2923,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[1380,1043,4610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321433,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321431\/revisions\/321433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}