Mohan Yadav took oath as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday.
BJP leaders Jagdish Devda and Rajendra Shukla take oath as the Deputy Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh, in Bhopal.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior NDA leaders attended the ceremony.
After being declared the leader of the BJP legislature party, Yadav, accompanied by the outgoing chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, state party chief VD Sharma, and three Central observers, met with Governor Mangubhai Patel.
In the assembly elections held on November 17, the BJP secured victory in Madhya Pradesh by claiming 163 seats out of the total 230-member assembly.
Meanwhile, the Congress party trailed behind, securing a distant second position with 66 seats.
Yadav, a minister in the Chouhan government, was elected unanimously as the BJP legislative party leader during a meeting on Monday.
He is considered to be close to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and hails from the Other Backward Classes (OBC) community, which accounts for more than 48 per cent of the state’s population.
Yadav was elected as MLA from Ujjain South seat for the first time in 2013.
He retained the assembly seat in 2018 and again in 2023
