'Would Rather Die Than..': Shivraj Chouhan On Seeking Central Post From Delhi

On the issue of seeking a central post, Shivraj Singh Chouhan said he would rather die than ask something for himself from the Delhi leadership.

In a big statement, Shivraj Chouhan said he would rather die than ask something for himself from the leadership in Delhi. He said this when asked about his ambitions of a central post after being at the helm of affairs in Madhya Pradesh for almost two decades. He said he did not like going to Delhi to ask for something and that he was in Madhya Pradesh and will remain there.

On his stint as the chief minister of MP, he said, "BJP has made me CM for 18 years. BJP has given me everything and now it's time to return to the party. After Ladli, will now work on Lakhpati Yojana."

On Monday, Shivraj Singh Chouhan resigned as the chief minister to Governor Mangubhai Patel after Mohan Yadav was elected as the leader of the state legislative party.

This time, in the run up to the polls, the BJP did not project a CM face -- touted to be one of the strategies to circumvent the perceived anti-incumbency. Howeever, the party swept the state dashing the Congresss's hopes of coming back to power in the state.

Four-time CM Shivraj Chouhan took office in 2005, 2008, 2013 and 2020 and was the BJP's longest serving chief minister and was largely credited for the party's victory in the state along with the Modi magic and the political prowess of master strategist Amit Shah.

The saffron party came to power in the state with a whopping 163 seats in the 230-member assembly, leaving the Congress a distant second with 66.

It was Chouhan who proposed the name of MP Chief Minister-elect Mohan Yadav, a leader of Other Backward Classes (OBC) and a three-time MLA, for the top post at a meeting of the newly-elected legislators.