^Ramaseshan, Radhika (29 January 2018). "BJP's Rajput CMs call out Karni Sena". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 1 July 2024. By now, the people of Madhya Pradesh know that Chouhan is from the Kirar backward caste and was a beneficiary of the BJP's "social engineering" agenda that fostered backward-caste leaders like him, Kalyan Singh and Narendra Modi in the post-Mandal era.