This year’s Holi is special for Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan as he has achieved the distinction of being the longest-serving BJP chief minister.
On Thursday, he broke a record which had been held by former Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh.
While Raman Singh, who was chief minister for three consecutive terms, remained in the post for fifteen years and ten days, 63-year-old Chouhan has now surpassed him.
The Madhya Pradesh CM’s tenure, however, has not been unbroken: he was out of power for fifteen months as Congress formed government under Kamal Nath’s leadership after the 2018 Assembly polls.
As far as Madhya Pradesh is concerned, Chouhan has another record under his belt.
On November 19, 2015, when he completed ten years in office, he became the first non-Congress chief minister of the state to do so.
Then he went on to become the longest-serving chief minister of MP by breaking the record of Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh who had ruled from 1993 to 2003.