Scindia has his way with berths, signals sway in BJP

Rajendra Sharma | TNN | Updated: Jul 14, 2020, 03:35 IST

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan

BHOPAL: Nearly a week ahead of the budget presentation in the Madhya Pradesh assembly, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday allocated portfolios to the newly-inducted ministers in his cabinet. Chouhan kept plum departments with himself and some of BJP's old guards.
Meanwhile, ministers close to BJP Rajya Sabha member Jyotiraditya Scindia also managed to get plum departments such as health, energy, women and child development and panchayat as well as rural development departments.
Here's the full list of ministers & portfolios
Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan: General Administration, Public relations, Narmada Valley Development, Aviation and all other departments which are not allocated to any minister.
Cabinet ministers

Narottam Mishra - Home, Jail, Parliamentary affairs, Law.
Tulsiram Silawat - Water Resources, Fisheries Welfare and Fisheries Development
Govind Singh Rajput - Transport, Revenue
Kamal Patel - Farmer welfare and Agriculture Development.
Meena Singh - Tribal Welfare, Scheduled Caste welfare.
Gopal Bhargava - Public Work Department, Cottage and Village industries
Vijay Shah - Forest
Jagdish Deora - Commercial Tax, Finance and Planning, Economic and Statistics
Bisahu Lal Singh - Food and Civil Supplies, Consumer Protection
Yashodhara Raje - Sports and Youth Welfare, Technical Education, Skill Development and Employment
Bhupendra Singh - Urban Development and Housing
Aidal Singh Kansana - Public Health Engineering
Brijendra Pratap Singh - Mineral Resources, Labor
Vishwas Sarang - Medical Education, Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation
Imrati Devi - Women and Child Development
Prabhuram Chaudhary - Public Health and Family Welfare
Mahendra Singh Sisodia - Panchayat and Rural Development
Pradyuman Singh Tomar - Energy
Prem Singh Patel - Animal Husbandry, Social Justice and Disabled Welfare
Om Prakash Saklecha - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Science and Technology
Usha Thakur - Tourism, Culture and Spirituality
Arvind Singh Bhadoria - Cooperatives, Public Service Management
Mohan Yadav - Higher Education
Hardeep Singh Dang - New and Renewable Energy, Environment
Rajyavardhan Singh Dattigaon - Industrial Policy and Investment Promotion

Ministers of state

Bharat Singh Kushwaha - Horticulture and Food Processing (Independent charge), Narmada Valley Development
Inder Singh Parmar - School Education (Independent charge), General Administration
Ramkhilawan Patel - Backward Class and Minority Welfare (Independent charge), Free, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes Welfare (Independent charge), Panchayat and Rural Development
Ramkishore Kanvre - Ayush (Independent charge), Water Resources
Brijendra Singh Yadav - Public Health and Engineering
Girraj Dandotiya - Farmer Welfare and Agricultural Development
Surendra Dhakad - PWD
OPS Bhadoria - Urban Development and Housing

Earlier, Chouhan had forwarded the names of the ministers and their respective portfolios with the consent of Scindia and his supporters.
Jagdish Devda will be the finance minister of Madhya Pradesh while chief minister Chouhan's close aide Bhupendra Singh has been assigned the charge of urban development minister. The home department will remain with senior minister Narottam Mishra who has given health to Prabhuram Chaudahry and will hold the responsibility of legislative affairs, jail and law departments too.
There was an intense tussle over prized portfolios between senior BJP leaders and Scindia's loyalists had to settle for their old departments and a few portfolios focusing on public welfare and development.
Senior cabinet minister and close confidante of Scindia, Tulsiram Silawat, will continue to work as water resources department with additional responsibility of fisheries welfare and fisheries development while Govind Singh Rajput will be the transport and revenue minister. He was given the responsibility of food and civil supplies and cooperatives departments previously. Cabinet minister Imarti Devi will continue to be the minister of women and child development department.