Chouhan’s development plank worked in MP

Chouhan’s victory proved that people in the state voted for only one factor and that is development, which was the BJP’s main poll plank in the Assembly polls held on November 27.

Born on March 6, 1959 at village Jait in Sehore district, Chouhan had won the Lok Sabha polls five times from Vidisha and was also elected as the member of the State Assembly twice.

The 49-year-old BJP leader began his electoral politics by winning Budhni assembly seat in 1990, but quit the seat on November 23, 1991 to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Vidisha seat.

Since then he represented Vidisha where he was popularly known as ‘Panv-panv wale Bhaiya’ (one who always toured the constituency on foot) till he was elected the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

Chouhan elected as MP from Vidisha in the year 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004.

After becoming Chief Minister of the state on November 29, 2005 Chouhan entered the state assembly again from Budhni seat on May 6, 2006.

Today’s victory of the ruling BJP has decimated all charges of corruption against him levelled by the main opposition Congress including the famous dumper scam and charges of corruption against his ministers.

The BJP victory has also proved the time-tested theory that nobody is bigger than the party and this time it applied to Bhartiya Janshakti Party President Uma Bharti, who lost the polls from her home district Tikamgarh.

Chouhan was successful in carving an image as the common man’s Chief Minister, a term he used to describe himself as one among them, a farmer’s son.

People, specially women, have voted for him again as he introduced a large number of women-oriented schemes directly benefiting women like ‘Ladli Laxmi Yojna’ and ‘Mukhya Mantri Kanyadan Yojna’. All these welfare measures have popularized him among the electorate.