JAIT: Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday administered a pledge to residents of his ancestral village, Jait, in Sehore district to voluntarily give up all forms of intoxicants and make it a "dry village".
A day earlier, BJP leader Uma Bharti had called Chouhan a 'sadhu' and urged him to take up the cause of prohibitionChouhan travelled to Jait on the banks of Narmada, about 90km from Bhopal, to participate in a gram sabha organised to mark "Gram Gaurav Diwas", a new initiative of the state government to involve people of a village in decision-making for development.
