"It is quite obvious that the Congress does not have any leader who can match Chouhan in stature," BJP MP unit's joint spokesman Umesh Sharma told PTI today.
Congress did not declare its chief ministerial nominee, not by way of strategy but because it had no alternative, Sharma said.
In the faction-ridden Congress, if one person was named as the chief ministerial candidate, other party leaders would start working against him, he added.
Congress spokesman Narendra Saluja, however, said that his party does not have a tradition of naming a chief ministerial nominee before the elections.
Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh is slated to take place later this year.