The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to select its Chief Minister for Madhya Pradesh on December 11, as its legislature party meeting is scheduled to be held that evening in the State capital in the presence of the party’s three central observers.
After the party picked a tribal leader, Vishnu Deo Sai, as its CM in Chhattisgarh, party sources and political observers say that the chances of selecting a contender from the other backward classes (OBCs) in M.P. have increased. Apart from the incumbent CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, an OBC himself, another leader from the community, Prahlad Singh Patel who recently resigned as a Union Minister, is among the frontrunners for the top post.
In last month’s Assembly election, the BJP won a massive majority with 163 seats. The Congress, which was hoping to wrest power in the State, could only manage 66 seats.
