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No Cabinet in place, MP's BJP govt forms task force to tackle Covid-19

The first meeting of the task force was convened via a video conference

Shivraj Singh Chouhan
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The move to form the task force came late on Monday after the opposition slammed the ruling party in the state for being slow in taking the coronavirus challenge head on

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Chouhan stumped

With no Cabinet in place and pressure mounting on Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to appoint ministerial colleagues, the Madhya Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has stepped in to appoint a task force to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. The first meeting of the task force was convened via a video conference. During the discussion, Kailash Vijayavargiya, BJP National General Secretary and a member of the task force, posed a few tricky questions to Chouhan: “What is the role of the task force?” and “Can members directly ask officers to follow our orders?” The otherwise loquacious

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