Had Tata Steel land issue cast shadow on Chhattisgarh's Chitrakot by-poll?

The Congress government has returned the land acquired for steel project to tribals in the constituency

If the heavy turn out in the Chhattisgarh's Chitrakot assembly by-election is any indication, Congress government's decision to return the land acquired for Tata Steel plant has emerged as one of the major issues.

The constituency in restive Bastar region went to the mid-term poll on Monday. It was necessitated after Congress' sitting legislator Deepak Baij got elected to the Lok Sabha. Famous across the globe for waterfall, Chitrakot also came to limelight in June 2005 when Tata Steel inked an agreement with BJP government for setting a steel plant with an investment of around Rs 195 billion in the constituency.

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