Dr. Mohan Yadav

Mohan Yadav was born on 25th March 1965 to Poonamchand Yadav and Lilabai Yadav in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. Yadav graduated from Ujjain University with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree after finishing his higher secondary. 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.

From the very beginning, he was interested in politics. He served as the Vice-Secretary and then President of the Madhav Science College Student Union in 1982 and 1984 respectively. He also served as a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. In 2013, he entered electoral politics and contested from the Ujjain South constituency. He won by defeating the Congress candidate Jaysingh Darbar in the 2013 Assembly Elections by 9,652 votes.

After that, 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 Minister of Education till 2023. In the 2023 Madhya Pradesh State Assembly Elections, he ran from the Ujjain South constituency and won again. After winning the election, BJP selected him as their Chief Ministerial candidate and made him the 19th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.