Forty-four-year-old Arun Yadav is a two-term Lok Sabha member of Parliament and was a minister in Manmohan Singh's UPA-2 government. He is contesting against sitting Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from the high profile Budhni Vidhan Sabha constituency in Sehore district. Considered by many as a soft candidate given that Chouhan is a sitting five-time MLA from the constituency considered to be his home turf. In an exclusive interview with Business Standard amid a hectic campaign, Yadav discounted the criticism that he was an outsider in Budhni and exuded the confidence of causing a big upset on December 11.