Hemender Sharma | Posted by Iram Ara Ibrahim
New Delhi, October 25, 2017 | UPDATED 17:13 IST
Madhya Pradesh Chief Ministe Shivraj Singh Chauhan got roasted for claiming that roads in MP were better than the roads in Washington DC.
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan is being ridiculed for claiming that roads in MP were better than the ones in Washington DC.Chief Minister 
Shivraj Singh Chouhan's claim that roads in Madhya Pradesh were better than those in Washington DC has landed him in the eye of a joke storm.
When I got down at Washington Airport & travelled on roads, I felt roads in MP are better than US: Madhya Pradesh CM in Washington DC pic.twitter.com/saMTLqKDqT
- ANI (@ANI) October 24, 2017
Chouhan, who made this comment while in the US, is getting roasted on social media, as people poke fun at him by sharing images for bad roads in MP.
"MP roads better than the US? Are you joking? Can you not see these pot holes? My shop is here on the Kolar Road, and in these pot holes right in front of my shop almost two dozen people fall every day. Can Shivraj Chouhan not see this? He had come for an event about one km from here recently and the pot holes till that particular point were filled but beyond that nothing has changed," said a shopkeeper named Iqbal.
Some even trolled Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Twitter by posting pictures of roads in the US and calling them that of Madhya Pradesh. Pictures of pot-holed roads of MP have also been posted online with captions reading that pictures were from the US.
CONGRESS LASHES OUT AT SHIVRAJ SINGH CHOUHAN
The Congress party, while taking the issue a step further, has declared a reward of Rs 5100 to anyone who will show a single road across MP that is built on US standards.
Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia also took to Twitter to criticise Chouhan.
"Someone please help him open his eyes. Mr Chouhan please open your eyes and see the reality," Scindia said while tagging a news report. The report tagged by Scindia claimed 29 people died in India because of pot holes and most of the deaths happened in Madhya Pradesh.
Madhya Pradesh Cooperative Minister Vishwas Sarang tried to defend the chief minister, saying that Chouhan was trying to make a comparison between a developed and developing state.
"What the chief minister wanted to say was that the roads of MP will be better than Washington once it becomes a developed state," said Sarang.
Sarang also urged Scindia to not play politics in this matter, saying Shivraj Singh Chouhanwas not representing the BJP but Madhya Pradesh in the US.