INDORE: Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday shared several his past experience as ABVP worker and said his learning experience as ABVP member helping even today.

Addressing the ABVP former post-bearers and workers on the sideline of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s (ABVP) 62nd National Convention here at the Devi Ahilya Vishwavidhyalya (DAVV), Indore auditorium, state chief minister turned nostalgic saying, “He has learnt many important aspects of working in public life during his association with the BJP’s student wing”.

"While working in vidhyarthi parishad, I learnt how to take along everyone and plan a detailed task. These lessons are very useful for me even today," he said.

Recalling his school days in Bhopal, Chouhan informed that few days after he came in contact with ABVP, emergency was imposed in the country and he was arrested for carrying publicity material against the “draconian” law and sent to jail.

“I was kept at Habibganj police station for one night and during this, police personnel made every attempt to get information about the source of publicity material. Even police personnel offered him poha and jalebi, but he denied straightforward. Later police sent him to jail and inside the jail I read a lot about Swami Vivekanand and Lokmanya Tilak and that made me a permanent worker of ABVP,” Chouhan said.