Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister-designate Mohan Yadav on Monday said the swearing-in ceremony of the new government will take place on December 13.
Yadav was addressing reporters in the evening after being elected as the leader of the BJP's legislative party.
Yadav had met Governor Mangubhai Patel and claimed to form the next government after being declared party leader of the BJP.
He was accompanied by outgoing Prime Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, state party chief VD Sharma and the three central observers at the Raj Bhavan, a BJP spokesperson said.
The governor invited Yadav to form a government in the state and handed over a letter regarding his appointment as the next chief minister.
The BJP retained power in Parliament in the November 17 assembly elections by winning 163 seats in the 230-member assembly, while the Congress finished a distant second with 66.
Prime Minister Modi will attend Chhattisgarh's swearing-in ceremony
Chhattisgarh's Prime Minister-designate and BJP leader Vishnu Deo Sai will take oath along with his Cabinet colleagues at a ceremony in Raipur on December 13 in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other dignitaries, it was announced on Monday.
Besides Sai (59), who will be the BJP's first tribal CM, his council of ministers will also be sworn in during the ceremony, an official release said. As per constitutional norms, Chhattisgarh, which has a 90-member assembly, can have a maximum of 13 ministers, including the CM.
The swearing-in ceremony will be held at Science College Ground in the state capital at 2 pm, the press release issued by the state public relations department said. Besides Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President JP Nadda, party's Chhattisgarh Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Om Mathur and CMs of some other states will also be present at the meeting. Sai, a prominent tribal face of the saffron group in the state, was on Sunday elected party leader of the legislature at a meeting attended by all 54 newly elected BJP MLAs here.
The BJP won 54 of the total 90 seats in the state. The Congress, which won 68 seats in 2018, was reduced to just 35 seats this time. The Gondwana Gantantra Party, a regional group, managed to win in one segment.