Shivraj Singh Chouhan in city to meet Amit Shah amid buzz about future

NEW DELHI: Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is set to meet senior BJP leaders, including home minister

Amit Shah

, party president JP Nadda and other senior leaders in the next couple of days, during his first visit to the national capital after government formation in his state.
"BJP chief Nadda has called for a meeting and I will go to meet him," said the four-time chief minister, who reached Delhi on Monday.

Chouhan's visit is crucial as he had recently said that he would "prefer to die" than going to Delhi seeking a post.
He also said that whatever role the party decides for him, he would work accordingly. "I have always said that BJP is a mission and when you work in a mission then you won't decide, the mission decides for you. Whatever the party will decide, I will work for it. There are a few subjects like environment, women empowerment and child welfare, these are my favourite issues and I will continue to work for it from my heart," Chouhan said.
Chouhan and other elected legislators on Monday took oath after which he also said that he had full faith in chief minister Mohan Yadav and the state will reach new heights of progress and development.

"I am proud and self-satisfied that I served the people as chief minister for almost 17 years. Whether it was development or public welfare, I was able to do good work. Being a citizen of a state now, my wish is that better work should be done than me under the leadership of the chief minister Mohan Yadav," Chouhan told reporters.
The BJP leader said that the target now is to win all 29 Lok Sabha seats in next year's elections.

After BJP won the assembly polls by two-thirds majority on December 3, Chouhan had refused to go to Delhi. While all other senior leaders and CM-hopefuls - including Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Prahlad Singh Patel, BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, state BJP president V D Sharma and some former cabinet ministers of Madhya Pradesh - camped in Delhi to meet with the BJP brass, Chouhan stayed put in the state.