In a candid admission, former Lok Sabha speaker and ex-Indore BJP MP Sumitra Mahajan said she took the help of Congress leaders for issues concerning the development of her constituency in order to mount pressure on the then Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in the state.
She went on to claim she could not raise issues of public interest several times when her own party's government was in power in MP as she was "tied down by discipline".
The Congress unseated the BJP after 15 years in the Assembly polls late last year.