BHOPAL: Veteran leader Kamal Nath will be sworn in as the 18th chief minister of Madhya Pradesh on December 17.The swearing-in ceremony will take place at the Lal Parade Ground in Bhopal at around 1.30 pm on December 17.
Kamal Nath said that the promise of farm loan waiver made by the Congress will be fulfilled.There will no Deputy Chief Minister post.
Governor Anandiben Patel invited Nath, 72, to form the new government in the state, after he met her at the Raj Bhavan here Friday to stake claim to form the government.
The nine-time Lok Sabha member from Chhindwara was Thursday night elected as the leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP).
Kamal Nath was born in Kanpur to an established business family, and has worked with three generations of Gandhis – Indira, Rajiv, Sonia, and Rahul.
Kamal Nath will be the first Congressman to govern Madhya Pradesh since Digvijaya Singh, who was succeeded by Uma Bharti in 2003.
Kamal Nath was first elected to Lok Sabha in 1980. He was Minister of Environment and Forests as also Textiles Minister in the P.V. Narasimha Rao government.
Kamal Nath was a key member of the two UPA governments and was Commerce and Industry Minister in 2004-09. In UPA-II, he held the portfolios of Road Transport and Highways, Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs.
Kamal Nath has been a union Minister in different Congress-led governments and has also held organisational posts including being in-charge of Gujarat and Haryana.
The Congress, which won 114 seats, has secured support of 121 MLAs, including SP (1) and BSP (2) legislators and four independents, to cross the majority mark of 116 seats in the 230-member assembly.
