Watch | BJP leader wears shoes after 6 years, former CM Shivraj shares emotional video

Bhopal: In a heartwarming visual, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was seen making a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker from the state wear shoes on Saturday, December 23. BJP’s Anuppur district unit chief in Madhya Pradesh Ramdas Puri had vowed in 2017 not to wear footwear till the party forms a government in the state. The BJP failed to form a government after the 2018 assembly elections. As a result he didn't wear shoes for six long years, until the saffron party secured a massive victory in 2023 and Mohan Yadav was sworn in as the chief minister of the state succeeding Shivraj Singh Chouhan. On Saturday, in the presence of Shivraj Singh Chouhan Ramdas Puri started wearing shoes.Chouhan said that Puri stopped wearing footwear in 2017 and decided that till the BJP comes to power in the state, he will not wear it. "Puri ji is a hardworking and dedicated party worker, who had given up wearing shoes and slippers since 2017. For six years, he remained barefoot in every season - summer, winter or rain. His resolution has been fulfilled. We all requested that now the resolution has been fulfilled and you should start wearing shoes," said Shivraj Singh Chouhan. The BJP failed to form a government after the 2018 assembly elections. But even after the party came back to power in 2020 (after the Kamal Nath-led Congress government collapsed), Puri did not start wearing shoes, Chouhan said in a video posted on his official X account.रामदास पुरी जैसे कार्यकर्ता पार्टी की शक्ति और पूंजी हैं...अनूपपुर के भाजपा जिला अध्यक्ष श्री रामदास पुरी जी ने संकल्प लिया था कि जब तक प्रदेश में भाजपा की सरकार नहीं बनेगी, तब तक वे जूते चप्पल नहीं पहनेंगे।प्रदेश में भाजपा की सरकार बन गयी और उनका संकल्प पूरा होने पर हमने… pic.twitter.com/3Q50QThen3— Shivraj Singh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) December 23, 2023 In the last month's assembly elections, the BJP registered a landslide victory by bagging 163 of the 230 assembly seats, and retained power in the central state.

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Watch | BJP leader wears shoes after 6 years, former CM Shivraj shares emotional video

BJP’s Anuppur district unit chief in Madhya Pradesh Ramdas Puri had vowed in 2017 not to wear footwear till the party forms a government in the state

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