BJP today played down Congress leader Shiela Dikshit's elevation as a Chief Ministerial candidate for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections describing her as a retired leader. <br/><br/>Party Secretary Shrikant Sharma said, she has been projected so that Mrs Dikshit could be blamed for the certain defeat of the Congress in the polls. He dubbed the opposition party as a sinking ship. <br/><br/>On BJP's Chief Ministerial candidate, Mr Sharma said that party's face is development and other parties are doing a debate on the chief ministerial nominee to dilute its plank of progress and good governance.