Mohan Yadav Biography: Family, Education, Political Career and Other Details of New MP CM

On December 11, 2023, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) who won the majority of seats in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Elections, declared Mohan Yadav as the Chief Minister. The decision came after a legislative party meeting in Bhopal. He is the second ‘Yadav’ CM of the BJP. 

#WATCH | Madhya Pradesh CM-designate Mohan Yadav says, "I am a small worker of the party. I thank all of you, the state leadership and the central leadership. With your love and support, I will try to fulfil my responsibilities." pic.twitter.com/dRM7g0VoMw

— ANI (@ANI) December 11, 2023

#WATCH | Madhya Pradesh CM-designate Mohan Yadav meets former CM and senior leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan at his residence in Bhopal. pic.twitter.com/eivfiDhgWR

— ANI (@ANI) December 11, 2023

Family and Education

On March 25, 1965, Mohan Yadav was born in Ujjain. He is married to Seema Yadav, and together they have three children- one daughter and two sons.

Yadav graduated from Ujjain University with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree. He further pursued his academic interests and completed LLB, Master of Arts (MA), Master of Business Administration (MBA), and Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) degrees from the same university. 

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Political Career

Mohan Yadav was interested in politics from the get-go. He was a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. In 2013, he entered electoral politics and ran for the Ujjain South constituency. He won by beating Congress candidate Jaysingh Darbar in the Ujjain South constituency of the 2013 Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election by 9,652 votes. Yadav got 73,108 votes, whereas, Darbar received 63,456.  

He was re-elected in the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, taking the seat of MLA for Ujjain South. He won by 18,960 votes over Congress candidate Rajendra Vashishtha Raju Bhaiya. 

In 2020, he was sworn in as a cabinet member of the Madhya Pradesh government under the former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. He was MP’s Minister of Education till 2023. 

In the 2023 Madhya Pradesh State Assembly Elections, he ran from the Ujjain South constituency and won. 

On Dec 11, 2023, BJP announced that Mohan Yadav will serve as the 19th Chief Minister of Madya Pradesh. The announcement came after the BJP Legislative member's meeting. Following the BJP's victory in the elections on December 3, many candidates, including senior leader and former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Narendra Singh Tomar, and Kailash Vijayvargiya, were speculated to head the government of Madhya Pradesh. However, in a surprising turn of events, the party named Mohan Yadav as the face of the new Chief Minister.

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