Modi Cabinet: MP dominates in Modi 3.0, the entire state was managed with five ministers, Chhattisgarh was disappointed again

Narendra Modi has taken oath as Prime Minister for the third consecutive time on Saturday evening. He took oath with his new cabinet in a program organized at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Modi 3.0 is different from Modi 1.0 and Modi 2.0 in many ways. In this cabinet, not only the number of ministers is more than the other two tenures, but many MPs from allied parties have also been included in the cabinet. Like the first two cabinets, Madhya Pradesh dominates this Modi 3.0 cabinet. Whereas Chhattisgarh has been disappointed. Only one minister has been made from the state. Bilaspur MP Tokhan Sahu has been made a Minister of State in the Modi cabinet. Sahu has become an MP for the first time by winning the Lok Sabha elections.

5 faces from Madhya Pradesh have got a place in the Modi cabinet. These include 3 cabinet and 2 state ministers. Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia, and Dr. Virendra Kumar Khatik took oath as cabinet ministers. While Durgadas Uike and Savitri Thakur have taken oath as ministers of state. Apart from this, Rajya Sabha MP L Murugan from Madhya Pradesh has also been made a minister of state. MP from Vidisha and former CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan has become a minister at the center for the first time. On the other hand, MP from Guna Jyotiraditya Scindia has become a member of the Modi cabinet for the second consecutive time. When Scindia was in Congress, he had been a minister in the UPA-2 government. Shivraj has become an MP for the sixth time and Scindia for the fifth time. Shivraj and Scindia belong to the OBC category.

MP from Tikamgarh, Dr. Virendra Kumar, who comes from the SC category, has become a minister at the center for the third consecutive time. He has also taken the oath of office and secrecy as a cabinet minister. Dr. Virendra Kumar is an eighth-time MP. Minister of State Durgadas Uike comes from the ST category, he is a two-time MP from Betul. While Savitri Thakur belongs to the ST category and is a two-time MP from Dhar. Both have become ministers at the center for the first time. On the other hand, Rajya Sabha MP Murugan has been made a minister of state again. Murugan is a Rajya Sabha MP from MP. He has been the Minister of Information and Broadcasting along with the Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairy, and Fisheries in Modi 2.0. Murugan is originally from Tamil Nadu. He has also been the state president of Tamil Nadu. Murugan is also among the faces chosen by the BJP for expansion in the south. 47-year-old Murugan had also contested the Lok Sabha elections. But had to face defeat.

Political experts say that BJP has won 29 seats in the state. In this regard, an attempt has been made to cover the entire state by appointing 5 ministers. The 5 MPs who have been made ministers include Shivraj Singh (Central India), Jyotiraditya Scindia (Gwalior-Chambal), Dr. Virendra Kumar Khatik (Bundelkhand), Savitri Thakur (Malwa-Nimar) and Durgadas Uike (Narmada belt) from the region. While L Murugan, who is going to Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh, has been appointed as a minister, an attempt has been made to send a message to South India.

These stalwarts have also been ministers in Modi Government 1 and 2

In Modi Government 1.0, late BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, who was MP from Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh, late Rajya Sabha MP Anil Madhav Dave, MP from Mandla Faggan Singh Kulaste, Virendra Khatik from Tikamgarh, MP from Gwalior Narendra Singh Tomar, MP from Damoh Prahlad Patel and Rajya Sabha MP Thawarchand Gehlot were given place in the cabinet. While Indore MP Sumitra Mahajan was made the Lok Sabha Speaker. In Modi Government-2, from the state, MP from Morena Narendra Singh Tomar, MP from Mandla Faggan Singh Kulaste, MP from Damoh Prahlad Patel, MP from Tikamgarh Virendra Khatik, Rajya Sabha MP Dharmendra Pradhan, Rajya Sabha MP Thawarchand Gehlot were given place. In the expansion done in 2021, Jyotiraditya Scindia was given a place in place of Thawarchand Gehlot.

Only the MP got a chance from Chhattisgarh

BJP had made former Lormi MLA Tokhan Sahu its candidate from the Bilaspur Lok Sabha seat. Tokhan Sahu has registered a historic victory in this seat. In the election, Tokhan Sahu defeated Congress candidate Devendra Yadav by a margin of more than 1 lakh 64 thousand votes. He started his political career from the post of Panch in 1994 from Surajpura, a small village in Lormi. Tokhan Sahu is known as a very popular public representative in the area. Tokhan was elected Sarpanch from Panch, then District Member, and then MLA from Lormi Assembly seat in the year 2013. In the year 2015, while being an MLA, he was also given the post of Parliamentary Secretary during the tenure of Raman Singh. At the same time, a few months ago, Tokhan Sahu has also been made the state president of Chhattisgarh BJP's Kisan Morcha. At the same time, leaders like Brijmohan Agarwal, who was elected MLA eight times and became MP by winning the highest number of votes in the state, Santosh Pandey, who was elected MP for the second time, and Vijay Baghel have been disappointed. These leaders have not been included in the cabinet.