Shivraj Singh Chouhan was Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister from 2005 to 2018 and again from 2020 to 2023. He became the Chief Minister for the first time in 2005 after replacing Babulal Gaur. He remained the CM till December 2018 when the Congress party became the single largest party in the state and Kamal Nath became the Chief Minister. However, the Congress government in the state was short-lived and Shivraj Singh Chouhan again became the CM in March 2020 after the Jyotiraditya Scindia's rebellion. He was the longest-serving Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party leader has been representing the Budhni constituency in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly since 2006 winning it in a bypoll. He won the seat in 2008, 2013 and 2018 also by defeating Congress candidates Mahesh Singh Rajput, Dr Mahendra Singh Chauhan and Arun Subhashchandra Yadav respectively. In the 2023 Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections, Chouhan again won the Budhni seat by defeating Congress candidate Vikram Mastal Sharma with a margin of 1,04,974 votes. The BJP again won the decisive mandate in the state but Chouhan was replaced with Dr Mohan Yadav. Chouhan first represented Budhni in 1990 when he won the seat by defeating Congress candidate Hari Singh with a margin of over 22,000 votes. Chouhan won the Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency in 1991 (bypoll), 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004. Chouhan won a bypoll from Vidisha in 1991 after BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee retained his Lucknow seat and left Vidisha. He was also the former vice president of the BJP from 2019 to 2020. Chouhan is again contesting from the Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency.
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Notably, on the instructions of CM, the district administration of Khargone and police demolished illegal buildings of miscreants involved in the attack on a Ram Navami procession.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed grief on the death of the driver and directed the district administration to make arrangements for the treatment of the injured students.
Also, necessary changes will be carried out in the CoWIN portal, said National Health Mission director Santosh Shukla in a statement.
As per the Election Commission of India's data, the BJP is headed for a second straight win in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh and dominated the trends chart in three other states - Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) readied for a landslide win in Punjab.
"We have decided to increase the DA of government employees to 31%, and payment for the same will start from the month of April", MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.
Ujjain is home to Mahakaleshwar, one of the 12 jyotirlingas associated with Shiva.
Responding to Akhilesh Yadav's 'Baba Bulldozer' remark directed to Yogi Adityanath, Chouhan expanded the abbreviation of BABA as - Brave, Active, Brilliant, and Attentive.
The chief minister informed that the state government had sent a proposal to the Centre for the name change of two cities which have been accepted.
Other than the cold conditions, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also spoke to people regarding the spread of COVID-19 cases, where locals said norms should be followed more strictly.
In the incident that was caught on CCTV, a 4-year-old girl was seen being brutally attacked by a pack of street dogs. The dogs have bitten her hands, head, and ears, leading to serious injuries. The girl is now in stable condition, said hospital authorities.
During the meeting, state Panchayat Minister Mahendra Singh Sisodia put forth a proposal before the Cabinet to rescind an ordinance which the state government had recently issued to conduct elections.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that Mahua will now be sold as heritage liquor in Madhya Pradesh.
Chouhan pointed out that the BJP government in MP has created several cowsheds or 'gaushalas' in MP.
According to eye-witnesses, as the fire broke out in the special newborn-care unit of the hospital, parents and family members of the babies were seen running around screaming for help.
CM Chouhan was talking to reporters on Tuesday night at Jobat in Alirajpur district during his campaign for the Assembly bypoll there.
Madhya Pradesh government is planning to launch various development works and the recruitment drive for the police and other departments in the Naxal-hit Balaghat district.
CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, "the state government is also upgrading the IT sector and from now onwards all the state colleges will have skilled courses, apart from only subjective education. All the state universities will now provide agriculture education along with other courses."
The Ministry of National Highways and Road Transport issued approval to include the ambitious Atal Progress-Way project of Madhya Pradesh in Bharat Mala Phase-I.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Kailash Vijayvargiya sang 'Yeh dosti hum nahi todenge', and 'Hamein tumse pyaar kitna' at a 'bhutta party' in Bhopal.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday spoke to Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the flood situation in the state.
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