Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will hold three campaign rallies in Uttar Pradesh, including one at Charkhari from where senior BJP leader Uma Bharti is contesting the assembly election.

"I will go to Uttar Pradesh for campaigning on February 3, and address three poll-meetings, including one at Charkhari," Chouhan told reporters after the cabinet meeting here.

To a question on his proposed Moun Vrat (vow of silence) to protest delay by the Centre in giving assent to the Madhya Pradesh Special Courts Bill, Chouhan said he was not going ahead with it now, as the Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram, had forwarded the bill to the President.

When asked for comment on Congress leaders observing silence in a counter to his vow, Chouhan said that the opposition was always aping the ruling BJP.

PTI