Shivraj Singh Chouhan's perceptible makeover from 'liberal' to 'hardliner'

Chouhan - known for hosting Iftaar parties, wearing a skull cap, and organising mass nikaah for poor girls - appears to have jettisoned the past

Every Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief minister is said to be a Yogi Adityanath copycat, who has adopted his “governance model” to survive and earn brownie points with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Singh (RSS) and the BJP’s big guns.
 
Survival entails enacting rigorous laws to check religious conversions and prohibit inter-faith marriages, reading the riot Act to protestors and stone-pelters, and using the language of bullyboys. This is the most facile assumption on offer to explain Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s perceptible makeover from a liberal to an active proponent of hardcore Hindutva.
Chouhan’s present term is truncated because