If the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is voted to power and Narendra Modi becomes the Prime Minister of India,then we would work together for my State’s development, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in a Google Hangout on Saturday.

Chouhan said the Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre had always created obstacles for his State’s development.He said it is not right that one person has become bigger than the party in the BJP, adding that all are working together. Chouhan said this when asked about the internal turmoil in the BJP which recently came to open over allocation of poll tickets.

Even as the row over ticket distribution continues to haunt BJP, Chouhan downplayed reports of senior party leaders being sidelined ahead of elections.He said, “There are no ‘clubs’ in BJP and the party is united.” He also claimed that 99 per cent of the lok Sabha tickets have been provided to old cadre of the party.

When asked whether Chouhan would climb the ladders at Centre using his ‘Madhya Pradesh model’ like Modi did, the three-time CM said, “I am limited to MP; I want to concentrate and work on my State.”

Chouhan said his Government has brought a lot of development in Madhya Pradesh, particularly in the power sector. He said the State also has the capacity now to resolve other States’ power woes.He said good work has been done in fields of agriculture, employment for tribal’s, though adding that more work needs to be done in education and health.

When one of the participants asked whether the education in MP is more growth-oriented, Chouhan said the scenario today is much better than what it was earlier.One question was: “Why there is no photo of Narendra Modi on the wall behind ChouhanIJ” It only had photographs of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, lal Krishna Advani and Swami Vivekananda. To this, Chouhan said one need not be worried about that. “Narendra Modi is in my heart,” he said with a grin.

At a time when the party is facing flak from its own leaders over induction of expelled JDU leader Sabir Ali, Chouhan said that the BJP did not differentiate people on the basis of religion. He also claimed that the party was becoming more open to giving tickets to leaders from the Muslim community. “The BJP is increasingly giving ticket to leaders from Muslim community,” he said.