In Chhattisgarh, CM Vishnu Deo Sai, his two deputies Arun Sao and Vijay Sharma and five of the nine ministers that form the BJP government are fresh faces.
The party had fielded seven MPs, including three Union ministers in the Assembly polls, of whom five won. Of them, former Union minister Narendra Tomar was elected Speaker. The rest, including Prahlad Patel, Rakesh Singh and Uday Pratap Singh, were sworn in as ministers
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New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) With the selection of new chief ministers and deputy chief ministers in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, the BJP is likely to assign new roles to former chief ministers Vasundhara Raje, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and nine MPs who had resigned from Parliament after winning the assembly elections.