Who is the Present Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
(A) Shivraj Singh Chouhan
(B) Kamal Nath
(C) Digvijaya Singh
(D) Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Answer : (B)
Congress leader Kamal Nath sworn in as the 18th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in Bhopal on 17 December 2018. Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath of office to him.
Now tell you that Kamal Nath, who has held several portfolios in the Union Cabinet, was appointed the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president on 26 April 2018 and was at the forefront in steering the party to a win in the November 28 Assembly polls. The results were declared on 11 December 2018.
The Congress, which won 114 seats, has the support of one Samajwadi Party legislator, two Bahujan Samaj Party MLAs and four independents, to cross the majority mark of 116 seats in the 230-member Assembly.
CHIEF MINISTER: As per the constitution of India, the governor is a state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, the state's governor usually invites the party with a majority of the seat to form the government.
The governor appoints the Chief Minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly.
Since 1956, Eighteen people have served as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
The first Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh was Ravishankar Shukla.
The incumbent Chief Minister is Kamal Nath, who was sworn in on 17 December 2018.
List of Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh
1. Ravishankar Shukla (1 November 1956 to 31 December 1956)
2. Bhagwantrao Mandloi (9 January 1957 to 30 January 1957; 12 March 1962 to 29 September 1963)
3. Kailash Nath Katju (31 January 1957 to 14 March 1957; 31 January 1957 to 14 March 1957)
4. Dwarka Prasad Mishra (30 September 1963 to 8 March 1967; 8 March 1967 to 29 July 1967)
5. Govind Narayan Singh (30 July 1967 to 12 March 1969)
6. Nareshchandra Singh (13 March 1969 to 25 March 1969)
7. Shyama Charan Shukla (26 March 1969 to 28 January 1972; 23 December 1975 to 30 April 1977; 9 December 1989 to 1 March 1990)
8. Prakash Chandra Sethi (29 January 1972 to 22 March 1972; 23 March 1972 to 23 December 1975)
9. Kailash Chandra Joshi (24 June 1977 to 17 January 1978)
10. Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha (18 January 1978 to 19 January 1980)
11. Sunderlal Patwa (20 January 1980 to 17 February 1980; 5 March 1990 to 15 December 1992)
12. Arjun Singh (9 June 1980 to 10 March 1985; 11 March 1985 to 12 March 1985)
13. Motilal Vora (25 January 1989 to 9 December 1989)
14. Digvijaya Singh (7 December 1993 to 1 December 1998; 1 December 1998 to 7 December 2003)
15. Uma Bharti (8 December 2003 to 23 August 2004)
16. Babulal Gaur (23 August 2004 to 29 November 2005)
17. Shivraj Singh Chouhan (29 November 2005 to 11 December 2008; 12 December 2008 to 12 December 2013; 13 December 2013 to 16 December 2018)
18. Kamal Nath (17 December 2018 to Incumbent)
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