MP CM meets Amit Shah amid delay in portfolio allocation; Congress claims govt being run from Delhi

Mohan Yadav meets Union Home Minister Amit Shah & BJP President J.P. Nadda in Delhi, Congress accuses him of seeking approval for portfolio distribution from BJP's central leadership.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on December 29 met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president J.P. Nadda in New Delhi, even as the Congress accused Mr. Yadav of getting the approval of portfolio distribution for the new ministers from the BJP’s central leadership.

Mr. Yadav, who left for the national capital on December 28 night, called on Mr. Shah and Mr. Nadda on December 29 evening and also met Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. 

“Today in New Delhi, I had a courtesy meeting with the Honourable Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah and had a meaningful discussion on various issues related to the development and public welfare of the state,” Mr. Yadav wrote on X, sharing a picture with Mr. Shah. 

In the first Cabinet expansion of Mr. Yadav-led BJP government in the State, 18 MLAs took oath as Cabinet Ministers, six as Ministers of State (Independent Charge), and four as Ministers of State on December 25, 12 days after the CM and his two deputies — Jagdish Devda and Rajendra Shukla were sworn-in on December 13. 

Hitting out at the BJP over the delay in portfolio allocation, Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly and Congress MLA Umang Singhar alleged that all major decisions of the M.P. Government are being taken from Delhi and that Mr. Yadav has gone there to collect the list of ministers’ departments. 

Taking to X, Mr. Singhar said, “Everyone is drooling over the Home Department! Whereas, the CM wants a Deputy CM to get the Home Department,... Because, every minister wants a sugary department, but Dr. Mohan Yadav does not want any bigamist leader to take the Home Department and sit on his chest!”

“It should be considered as the helplessness of the Chief Minister that he has been made the king, but the command of the generals is not in his hands. This is called a dead engine!” Mr. Singhar wrote.