Shivraj Singh Chouhan Cabinet, Madhya Pradesh Cabinet ministers list 2020: Madya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday allocated portfolios to the new ministers, 11 days after expansion of the cabinet. The 28 new ministers who joined the Chouhan cabinet on July 2 include 20 of cabinet rank and eight ministers of state. Earlier in April, 5 ministers were inducted into the Cabinet. The Chouhan ministry strength is now 34, including four women ministers.
Madhya Pradesh Cabinet Ministers List 2020
1. Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Chief Minister): General administration, public relations, Narmada valley development, aviation and portfolios that have not been assigned to anyone
2. Narottam Mishra: Home, Parliamentary affairs and law
3. Meena Singh: SC/ST welfare department
4. Kamal Patel: Farmers welfare and agriculture development
5. Tulsi Silawat: Water resources department, Fisheries and fisheries development
6. Govind Singh Rajput: Revenue and Transport
7. Gopal Bhargava: Public works department and rural industries
8. Vijay Shah: Forest
9. Jagdish Devda: Finance and commercial tax
10. Bisahulal Singh: Food and civil supplies and consumer protection
11. Yashodhara Raje Scindia: Sports and youth welfare
12. Bhupendra Singh: Urban administration and development
13. Andel Singh Kansana: Public health engineering
14. Brijendra Pratap Singh: Mineral resources and labour
15. Vishwas Sarang: Medical education, Bhopal gas tragedy and relief
16. Imarti Devi: Women and child development
17. Prabhuram Chaudhary: Health and family welfare department
18. Mahendra Singh Sisodia: Panchayat and rural development
19. Pradhuman Singh Tomar: Energy
20. Prem Singh Patel: Animal, social justice and divyang welfare
21. Om Prakash Sakhlecha: Minor, small and medium enterprises and science and technology
22. Usha Thakur: Tourism, culture and spiritual
23. Arvind Bhadoria: Cooperatives and public service management
24. Mohan Yadav: Higher education department
25. Hardeep Singh Dang: New and renewable energy
26. Rajyavardhan Singh: Industrial policy and investment promotion
27. Bharat Singh Kushwaha (MoS independent charge): Food processing and horticulture
28. Inder Singh Parmar (MoS independent charge): School education department
29. Ramkhelawan Patel (MoS independent charge): Backward class and minorities welfare
30. Ramkishore Kanware (MoS independent charge): AYUSH and water resources
31. Brijendra Singh Yadav (MoS): Public health engineering
32. Girraj Dandotiya (MoS): Farmers welfare and agriculture development
33. Suresh Dhakad (MoS): Public works department
34. OPS Bhadoriya (MoS): Urban administration and development
The resignation of 22 Congress MLAs in March had resulted in the collapse of the 15-month-old Kamal Nath government. All the 22 MLAs later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly has 230 chairs. As per the rule, the number of Ministers in the state can’t exceed 15% of the Assembly’s strength. Madhya Pradesh can have a maximum of 34 ministers.