'Raj tilak to vanvas...': Shivraj Chouhan's quip after losing CM post

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'Raj tilak to vanvas...': Shivraj Singh Chouhan's quip on political journey after losing CM post..

The BJP won 163 out of 230 seats in the recently concluded MP assembly polls..

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday struck an emotional chord with the voters in his constituency Budhni, saying sometimes a person has to go on a vanvas (exile) after coronation...

Chouhan had won from his bastion Budhni by a margin of 1.04 lakh votes in the recently concluded Madhya Pradesh assembly election..

The BJP chose Mohan Yadav, a three-time MLA from Ujjain South who had served as the education minister in Chouhan's government, as the next chief minister..

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