Bhopal, Dec 21: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan`s cabinet has a maximum number of law
graduates with seven out of the total 22 possessing the LLB
degree.
While Chouhan is post-graduate in Philosophy, the Law
graduates include Babulal Gaur, Jayant Mallaiya, Gopal
Bhrgava, Raghavji, Kailash Vijaywargiya, Laxmikant Sharma and
Jagdish Devda, officials said.
Three engineers -- Jagannath Singh, K L Agrawal and
Rajendra Shukla have also found the place in the state
cabinet.
Among the two women members inducted into Chouhan
ministry, Archana Chitnis is Master in Science with BEd degree
and therefore, entrusted with the task of managing School and
Higher Education, they said.
Another woman member of the cabinet is Ranjana Bagel who
is a post-graduate and entrusted with the task of managing
Women and Child Development Ministry.
R M Krishna Kusumaria, with a doctorate degree, is the
most qualified person in the cabinet, while the least
qualified minister is Devi Singh Sayyam who did not pursue his
education after standard eighth.
Majority of Chouhan`s cabinet colleagues have
agricultural background while one of them, Laxmikant Sharma is
a Pandit.
Rohani likely to remain Speaker
The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh
is likely to zero on former speaker Ishwardas Rohani again for
the post of speaker of the 13th state assembly.
"I will abide by the party`s decision in this regard,"
Rohani said today when asked whether he would become the
Speaker of the new assembly.
"I am always willing to follow the party orders as I
believe in only two high commands, first is God and the
second is party leadership," Rohani said.
The former Speaker who got elected from his
traditional Jabalpur seat said that he was satisfied with
whatever God has given him in life and would be happy to
accept anything offered to him in future also.
He said that the party has lifted him from an ordinary
worker and made him MLA, Deputy Speaker and also speaker of
the state assembly and would go by the party`s order in
future also.
BJP sources said that all efforts made by the party to
woo senior party leader and former Union Minister Sartaj Singh
for the post proved futile.
Yesterday his supporters created a ruckus when his
name was not figured in the list of persons included in the
state cabinet and for the same BJP has not only issue
show-cause notice to Singh but also suspended his seven
supporters.
Bureau Report
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