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Madhya Pradesh CM: Hours after being chosen as the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Mohan Yadav said on Sunday evening that the oath ceremony will be held on December 13. Yadav said, “The oath ceremony will be held the day after tomorrow, 13th December. The state's programme is yet to be released. It will come out soon.” Earlier, Yadav affirmed that his government will take forward the development works of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

After a week-long suspense, the saffron party announced the new chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. Yadav was elected as leader of the BJP's legislative party 15 days after the party routed the Congress to win Madhya Pradesh. The outgoing Higher Education Minister thanked the BJP.

"It is only the BJP party that can give such a big responsibility to a small worker. I thank the state leadership and the central leadership... I will take forward the development works of PM Modi," Madhya Pradesh CM-designate Yadav said.

He further said that the BJP party can only give such a big responsibility to a small worker like me.

"I thank PM Modi, Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and VD Sharma for giving me such a big responsibility. It is only the BJP party that can give such a big responsibility to a small worker like me. I will take forward the development journey of the state," he added.

BJP also named two deputy chief ministers Jagdish Devda and Rajesh Shukla. Outgoing CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan also congratulated both the Deputy Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

Yadav is a member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Ujjain Dakshin constituency in Ujjain district. He became the MLA in 2013 for the first time from the same seat. He won the polls from the same seat in 2018 and 2022. Mohan was also a cabinet minister in Shivraj Singh Chouhan's government in 2020.

Madhya Pradesh went to poll for 230 assembly seats in a single phase on November 17 and the counting of votes was done on December 3.

The BJP, which had been battling close to 20 years of incumbency in the state, won a resounding mandate, bagging 163 seats, while the Congress finished a distant second at 66 seats.

(With input from agencies)