Bhopal. In the meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs in Madhya Pradesh, Mohan Yadav was elected the leader of the legislative party and will be the next Chief Minister of the state.
Mohan Yadav, who comes from Other Backward Class (OBC), is close to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The BJP had won 163 out of 230 seats in the state assembly elections, and a meeting was called at the party office on Monday to elect the leader. Yadav was unanimously elected as the party leader.
BJP state president Vishnu Dutt Sharma, while discussing with reporters, said that Mohan Yadav’s name was proposed by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and supported by Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Prahlad Patel, and National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya.
The MLAs and the three observers appointed by the party who arrived to take part in the meeting, including Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, National President of the party’s Backward Class Morcha, Dr. K. Laxman, and party’s national secretary Asha Lakra, reached Bhopal by special plane. When the three observers appointed by the BJP leadership reached Bhopal, the party’s state president, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, welcomed them. Many other leaders were also present on this occasion.
After this, the three observers reached the residence of Chief Minister Chouhan. Yadav has also been the Higher Education Minister of the state and has been elected MLA from Ujjain South three times. He was also the President of Madhav Mahavidyalaya, Ujjain, and held responsibility in Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and RSS.
