The BJP’s newly-elected MLAs in Madhya Pradesh will meet on Monday to elect the leader of the legislative party.
The Bharatiya Janata Party retained power in MP in the November 17 polls emphatically winning 163 seats in the 230-member Assembly, leaving the Congress a distant second with 66 seats.
However, it had not project a CM face, with the campaign relying heavily on the mass appeal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The meeting is expected to begin at 4pm on Monday and the name of CM may be announced by 7pm, an MLA said.
The party’s central observers, comprising Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, OBC Morcha head K Laxman and secretary Asha Lakra, are expected to arrive here at 11am.
“We have been invited for lunch at 1pm. The meeting will begin at 4pm,” the MLA said.
This is for the third time since 2004 that the Bharatiya Janata Party has sent central observers to MP.
In August 2004, when Uma Bharti resigned as chief minister, the party’s senior leaders Pramod Mahaj