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Third Chouhan ministry

Ministers in Government of Madhya Pradesh headed by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (2013 - 2018)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ25241936 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of Council of ministers from Shivraj Singh Chouhan's third cabinet of Madhya Pradesh starting from December 2013 till December 2018. Shivraj Singh Chouhan is the leader of BJP who was sworn in the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in December 2013.

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“Third Chouhan ministry” enters the record as ministers in Government of Madhya Pradesh headed by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (2013 - 2018). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Third, Chouhan and ministry can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013-12-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Third, Chouhan and ministry.
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“Third Chouhan ministry” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Third, Chouhan and ministry provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q25241936. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Third Chouhan ministry” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.