"We all, including Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) have immense respect for Advaniji," he told reporters here.
"Advaniji is our respected leader and workers like me have become effective under his able guidance," Chouhan said when asked whether he has stopped inviting Advani to the state or the latter has stopped visiting after Modi became the Prime Minister.
Chouhan, amid a peal of laughter, was quick to add that nothing should be read into it.
On his terming the eight SIMI activists as "terrorists" despite they being under-trials, Chouhan said perceptions are formed on the basis of work, and their deeds were not good.
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"I don't want to go deep into it," he added.
He held that the society should be saved from the people who are a threat, adding that menace of dacoity in the state has been wiped off after he took charge as chief minister.
"My government is courteous to good people and hard on people who trouble public," he added.
When asked to about the most joyous and the saddest moments or incidents in the last 11 years as the chief minister, Chouhan said he was delighted with his flagship Ladli Laxmi Yojana (programme) for the girl child, aimed at improving the skewed sex ratio.
The Petlawad explosions in Jhabua district in September 2015, where a series of blasts in the illegal stockpile of gelatin sticks and other explosions had left more than 100 people dead, had deeply saddened him, the CM said.