Chief ministership is a small thing, I will do what party tells me to, says Shivraj Chouhan

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Bhopal: Chief ministership is a small thing for BJP workers who do what the party asks of them, four-time Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said, attributing the BJPs thumping victory in the assembly election to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and double-engine governance...

In an exclusive interview with ThePrint less than a week after his party secured won 163 of MPs 230 seats, Chouhan, whose Ladli Behna Yojana is believed to have been one of the major factors to have helped buck anti-incumbency in the state, said that Modi becoming the PM for a third term is not only important for India but for the world as well.. Double-engine sarkar is a term the BJP uses to describe BJP governments at the central and state levels...

Women-centric central schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana, campaigns such as Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, and the Modi governments decision to provide one-third reservation in Lok Sabha and state assemblies to women, combined with the state governments other schemes such as the Ladli Laxmi Yojana and Kanyadan Yojana helped consolidate womens votes, he said...

The popularity of the prime minister, the trust people have in him, and the effective implementation of Centres schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, and Ayushman Bharat Yojana had an impact on the victory, he said...

I, on the other hand, have this mission to win all 29 Lok Sabha seats and contribute in making Narendra Modi the prime minister once again, he said.. India, he said, was progressing quickly under Modis leadership...

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