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Shivraj Singh Chouhan takes charge as MP Chief Minister

On Dec 13th, 2008, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan assumed the charge of his office for the second time, after performing puja at his chamber in secretariat in Bhopal. While handing over a copy of party's manifesto to chief secretary Rakesh Sahani, Mr Chouhan said that the party's manifesto is like “GEETA” for the state Govt.

Mr Chouhan said, “A three-tier-system will be in place to fulfill the promises made to the electorate by the BJP." He added that the BJP Govt. will work on improving education, infrastructure, women empowerment, better health facilities, industrialization, turning agriculture into a profitable business, good governance, enhancing business investments and check on the crime rate. He also promised to resolve water scarcity problem in some parts of the state.

The Chief Minister added, "We will take steps to overcome insufficient coal supply to the state's thermal power stations, affecting MP's electricity generation capacity."

Portfolio of misinsters in Madhya Pradesh

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chohan announces the new porfolios to his 14 cabinet and eight state ministers. All these ministers, including four with independent charges, took oath on 22nd December as members of Madhya Pradesh Cabinet.

Chouhan kept General Administration with himself, while Narmada Valley Development, Aviation and other departments are not assigned to any minister.

Alloted Portfolio

Urban Administration and Development
Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation departments

Finance, Planning, Economics and Statistics
20-Points Implementation and Commercial Tax

Water Resources, Housing and Environment

Kailash Vijayvargiya :

Commerce, Industries, Information Technology, Employment, Horticulture and Food Processing, Rural Industries, Science and Technology, Public Undertakings, and Parliamentary Affairs.

Nagendra Singh Nagod :

Public Works Department, Gopal Bhargava Panchayat and
Rural Development.

Charge of Home, Transport and Jail

Public health and Family Welfare, Energy and Medical Education.

Culture, Public Relations, Religious trusts and Endowments, and
Public Grievances Redressal

Higher Education, School Education, Technical Education and Training.

Tribal and Scheduled Castes Welfare

Ramkrishna Kusmaria :

Minister of Farmers Welfare, Agriculture Development,
Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Backward Class and Minorities Welfare.

Gaurishankar Bisen :

Ministries of Public Health Engineering and Cooperative

Tourism, Sports and Youth Welfare.

Task of Managing Labour, Revenue and Rehabilitation

Charge of food, Civil Supply and Consumer Affairs.

Minister of Woman, Child Development and Social Justice

Ministries of Forest, Bio-diversity and Biotechnology,
Mineral Resources, Law and Legislative Affairs.

Constituencies in Madhya Pradesh
1 - Morena	2 - Bhind	3 - Gwalior
4 - Guna	5 - Sagar	6 - Tikamgarh
7 - Damoh	8 - Khajuraho	9 - Satna
10 - Rewa	11 - Sidhi	12 - Shahdol
13 - Jabalpur	14 - Mandla	15 - Balaghat
16 - Chhindwara	17 - Hoshangabad	18 - Vidisha
19 - Bhopal	20 - Rajgarh	21 - Dewas
22 - Ujjain	23 - Mandsaur	24 - Ratlam
25 - Dhar	26 - Indore	27 - Khargone
28 - Khandwa	29 - Betul

Details of PCs
Total PCs	29
PCs for which Elections are being held	29
PCs for which results are available	29

Electors and Voters
Total Electors	38391315
Polling Stations	42312
Polling %age	48.08

Number of Candidates
National Parties	State Parties	State Parties-Other States	Other Reg. Parties	Independents	Total Contestants
90	29	6	45	124	294

Party	Constituencies
Party	Contesting	Won
BJP	29	25
BSP	28	0
CPI	2	0
CPM	1	0
INC	29	4
NCP	1	0
SP	29	0
JD(S)	2	0
JD(U)	1	0
RLD	3	0
ABHM	2	0
AD	5	0
GGP	15	0
JP	1	0
LJNSP	4	0
LSWP	1	0
NLP	1	0
RPI	1	0
RPI(A)	2d	0
RSGP	1	0
RSMD	2	0
SAP	1	0
SMSP	2	0
SSJP	1	0
SVSP	4	0
SWJP	2	0
IND	124	0
TOTAL	294	29

Minister's Name	Alloted Portfolio
Babulal Gaur :	Urban Administration and Development Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation departments
Raghavji :	Finance, Planning, Economics and Statistics 20-Points Implementation and Commercial Tax
Jayant Malaiya :	Water Resources, Housing and Environment
Kailash Vijayvargiya :	Commerce, Industries, Information Technology, Employment, Horticulture and Food Processing, Rural Industries, Science and Technology, Public Undertakings, and Parliamentary Affairs.
Nagendra Singh Nagod :	Public Works Department, Gopal Bhargava Panchayat and Rural Development.
Jagdish Devda :	Charge of Home, Transport and Jail
Anoop Mishra :	Public health and Family Welfare, Energy and Medical Education.
Laxmikant Sharma :	Culture, Public Relations, Religious trusts and Endowments, and Public Grievances Redressal
Archna Chitnis :	Higher Education, School Education, Technical Education and Training.
Jagannath Singh :	Tribal and Scheduled Castes Welfare
Ramkrishna Kusmaria :	Minister of Farmers Welfare, Agriculture Development, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Backward Class and Minorities Welfare.
Gaurishankar Bisen :	Ministries of Public Health Engineering and Cooperative
Tukojirao Pawar :	Tourism, Sports and Youth Welfare.
Karan Singh Verma :	Task of Managing Labour, Revenue and Rehabilitation
Paras Jain :	Charge of food, Civil Supply and Consumer Affairs.
Ranjana Baghel :	Minister of Woman, Child Development and Social Justice
Rajendra Shukla :	Ministries of Forest, Bio-diversity and Biotechnology, Mineral Resources, Law and Legislative Affairs.

General Elections 2004
Constituencies in Madhya Pradesh	Partywise Position in Madhya Pradesh