Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday ended his 'Jan Ashirwad Yatra' midway in Jabalpur after covering just 187 of the 230 Assembly seats in the poll-bound state.

However, he would soon embark on another yatra seeking mandate of the people, termed as ‘Janadesh’.

Chouhan had embarked on the Jan Ashirvad yatra on July 14 from Ujjain on a bus modified as a chariot to seek blessings of the people and set the tone for a poll campaign to bring the BJP back to power for a fourth consecutive time.

At the time of its flagging off, the BJP had said that the yatra would cover all 230 Assembly constituencies with speeches scheduled in 475 places en route.

While the opposition Congress Friday ridiculed the development in a tweet put out by state unit chief Kamal Nath, the BJP sought to downplay the development by stating that no culmination date was decided for the yatra.

While talking to ‘The Pioneer’ BJP vice president Prabhat Jha told that no date for the yatra's culmination had been decided, adding that Chouhan during the poll campaign would visit constituencies not covered in the yatra. He refused to accept that the yatra has ended. Jha said that Chouhan also had to attend party meetings in connection with the polls.

Reacting on the culmination of yatra, in a tweet Friday, Nath said, "It (yatra) was devoid of public, of government sponsored crowd and faced protest. The BJP itself now started deserting it the old speeches (of Chouhan), no work, just promises of doing this and that, false dream and assurance (did not work). Public understood all this."