To mollify disgruntled leaders, BJP top rung greenlights long-pending Shivraj cabinet expansion

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New Delhi: In a last-minute move to contain resentment among senior party leaders, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Madhya Pradesh cabinet is set for expansion just one and half months before the polling dates are announced in the BJP-ruled state...

After their inductions, the new ministers are likely to get just one and half months to work as the election is likely to be announced in October..

He (Chouhan) was given feedback after meeting several leaders, that many were upset for not being made ministers in the last three years, a BJP state functionary told ThePrint...

A former BJP state minister told ThePrint that the dilemma before the party is the possibility of annoying those leaders and regions who dont get a place in the proposed expansion...

Former minister Ajay Bishnoi, a ministerial aspirant, had earlier said that cabinet expansion at this moment would only end up annoying party leaders more...

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