{"id":324370,"date":"2020-07-02T08:07:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324370"},"modified":"2020-07-02T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:07:53","slug":"madhya-pradesh-cabinet-expansion-28-new-ministers-take-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/madhya-pradesh-cabinet-expansion-28-new-ministers-take-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"Madhya Pradesh Cabinet Expansion: 28 new ministers take oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324371 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MP-govt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/MP-govt.jpg 686w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/MP-govt-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/>The Madhya Pradesh government headed by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan saw a cabinet expansion on Thursday, months after dethroning the Congress\u2019s Kamal Nath government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 28 ministers were inducted into the government including BJP\u2019s Yashodhara Raje Scindia and Gopal Bhargava.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath of office and secretary at the Raj Bhavan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chief Minister tweeted a message today morning, \u201cHearty congratulations to all my colleagues who took the oath of office today. We will all work together to achieve the goals of development and public welfare in Madhya Pradesh.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The cabinet expansion had been due for over three months, when the Congress lost power to the BJP after 22 rebels quit along with Jyotiraditya Scindia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madhya Pradesh government headed by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan saw a cabinet expansion on Thursday, months after dethroning the Congress\u2019s Kamal Nath government. A total of 28 ministers were inducted into the government including BJP\u2019s Yashodhara Raje Scindia and Gopal Bhargava. Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath of office and secretary at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2923,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[1043,4610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324370"}],"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=324370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324372,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324370\/revisions\/324372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}