In eulogising Modi, MP chief minister Chouhan invokes Lord Ram DELHI DIARIES: In Tripura, a royal strike; in Bengal, BJP at receiving end of pawri jibe The Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, has been repeatedly betraying his desperation to make his loyalty to the current regime at the Centre known. He was once seen as a competitor to Narendra Modi, who was then the CM of the neighbouring state of Gujarat. If Modi was a popular three-term CM, so was Chouhan, or Mama ji, as he is popularly known. Chouhan would not dare to recall the memory of those days; now, he is time and again heard eulogizing Modi. The governor’s customary address on the opening day of the budget session in the Madhya Pradesh assembly had 10 references to the PM. When the leader of the Opposition, Kamal Nath, pointed it out, Chouhan hit back. Taking Modi’s name was a matter of pride, he said. “If Narendra Modi is Lord Ram then Amit Shah is Lord Hanuman,” Chouhan had remarked last month to emphasize how no power can stop the implementation of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act. He has come up with many more statements like these; in the Bharatiya Janata Party corridors in Delhi, Chouhan’s transformation is a matter of hushed discussion. However, what has led many in the party to pity him is his new-found eagerness to imitate the Uttar Pradesh CM, Yogi Adityanath. While his government has already followed up on UP’s contentious anti-conversion bill on interfaith marriages, the otherwise amiable Chouhan has also started sounding shrill and polarizing like Adityanath.
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