Bhopal, Aug 24 - Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is cagey about banning expelled party leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book on Mohammed Ali Jinnah like party-ruled Gujarat has, but the Congress here has demanded a ban on it.

State Congress spokesman K.K. Mishra, who made a statement Sunday evening, demanding that the book be banne, reiterated the stand Monday while talking to a section of the media.

'The Congress will not tolerate any disrespect shown towards Gandhi-Nehru-Sardar Patel. The state government should ban the book with immediate effect,' Mishra said.

The Congress in Gujarat has already backed the BJP government's ban on the book 'Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence'. The book praises Pakistan founder Jinnah while blaming India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

When a group of journalists Saturday asked Chouhan if his government would impose a ban on the book in Madhya Pradesh, he said: 'I don't think so'.

However, when asked if he meant that there would be no ban, he said: 'I don't think so right now'.