At least 56 more deaths have been reported since Friday evening -- the highest so far in a span of 24 hours
The expansion came amid Opposition's criticism that Madhya Pradesh doesn't have a health minister at a time when the state has reported 76 Covid-19 deaths.
The state was without a cabinet for the last two months owing to the COVID-19 pandemic after Chouhan was sworn in as CM on March 23
The cabinet has not been expanded since Shivraj Singh Chouhan took oath as chief minister for the fourth time on March 23, after his predecessor Kamal Nath of the Congress stepped down
Even if the pandemic's curve flattens out, governments are in for a long haul because the economic and social costs are far too enormous to be recompensed in the short run
The first meeting of the task force was convened via a video conference
Following the apex court order, senior Congress leader Kamal Nath had resigned on March 20, after 15 months of taking over as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
After Kumar and Govil were tested positive, the government's first response was to downplay the news
Bombay High Court refused to grant bail to the accused, saying it could not put him at the risk of contracting coronavirus
Previously, Banerjee had conducted surprise visits to marketplaces to enforce the lockdown, catching unprepared violators off guard
There were rumours that he was not the only candidate for the top job but finally he was in luck and got a call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi
The Congress is worried that some of its legislators in Gujarat might vote for the BJP candidates
According to sources in the EOW, it closed the case against Scindia and his family on Friday
Senior BJP MLA Jagdish Devda, one of the members of the speaker's panel, was on the chair of Speaker
Jyotiraditya Scindia, who jumped the Congress ship and joined BJP earlier this month, vowed to stand by the new government
Chouhan was earlier in the day elected leader of the state BJP legislature party at its meeting
BJP's central observers Arun Singh and Vinay Sahasrabuddhe joined the meeting via video conferencing from Delhi.
Congress leader and former CM Kamal Nath had on March 20 tendered his resignation to Governor Lalji Tandon following the resignation of 22 Congress MLAs
The departure of Jyotiraditya Scindia, who crossed over to the BJP, was a work in progress since December 2018, when the Congress chose Nath chief minister after its election victory
The resignation came a few hours before the test of strength in the House as directed by the Supreme Court