The lone Muslim candidate fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Madhya Pradesh polls on Monday said she joined the saffron party as she was impressed by the good work being done by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for all sections of the society.
Fatima Rasool Siddique, daughter of former state minister and Congress leader Rasool Ahmed Siddique, said she saw Chouhan, who was heading the BJP Government in the State since 2005, as a "secular" politician.
She joined the BJP last Thursday and hours later, the 35-year-old got the party ticket to fight the upcoming Assembly polls from the Bhopal North seat against five-time MLA of the Congress, Arif Aqueel, who had contested against her father in 1993.