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Chhattisgarh polls: Modi making false allegations against me, says Baghel

Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel responds to allegations made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over OBC reservation, Mahadev betting app, and corruption charges

Poll tracker: Assets of Chhattisgarh MLAs rose up to 3,340%, shows ADR data

This is according to an analysis of self-sworn affidavits of 66 re-contesting MLAs in the 90-member assembly by ADR

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Chhattisgarh polls: Baghel failed to fulfill promises, says Anurag Thakur

Union minister Anurag Thakur said that the Bhupesh Baghel-led government in the state has been unable to fulfill any promise they made during 2018 Assembly elections

Chhattisgarh elections: Lotus ready to bloom in state, says Anurag Thakur

Union Minister Anurag Thakur said that the lotus is now ready to bloom in the mess spread by the Congress in Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh Assembly polls: Congress' time in state is over, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that some journalist friends of his and even political analysts have informed him that Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is going to lose his seat from Patan

Women-run garment manufacturing unit to open in Raipur by early next year

The factory to employ 1,000 women in the first phase will later be expanded to generate employment for over 2,000 women

PM Modi targets Congress, says it didn't implement quota for OBC community

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused the Congress of not implementing reservation for the OBC community despite the party ruling from "panchayat to Parliament" for so many years after Independence. Addressing a public rally in Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh, Modi said the Congress' only target is to loot Chhattisgarh and fill its own coffers. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel's son, his (CM's) relatives and officers close to him looted and destroyed Chhattisgarh in five years, he alleged. Modi also said he can challenge that no official social media platforms of the Congress have appealed to the people to buy local products. Polling in 20 out of the total 90 assembly seats in Chhattisgarh was held on November 7. Voting in the remaining 70 seats will be held on November 17. Modi said the first phase of voting in Chhattisgarh has busted the Congress' "balloon of lies" and now people have decided to teach a lesson to the party. The BJP-led Centre built 4 cror

Religious conversions to be banned in Chhattisgarh under BJP rule: Rajnath

Chhattisgarh Assembly elections: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that forced religious conversion in the state will be prohibited if the BJP comes to power in Chhattisgarh

BJP trying to run Oppn-ruled states through Raj Bhawan: Chhattisgarh CM

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government is trying to control states ruled by other parties through the Raj Bhawan (governor), which is not in the interest of the country and its democracy, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said on Saturday. He was answering a query on the row between Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit and the Bhagwant Mann government over delay in giving assent to some bills passed in the Assembly in the northern state. "The Chief Justice of India has made a very serious comment (on the Punjab issue). Raj Bhawan has been trying to misuse its powers. Be it Punjab or Tamil Nadu, or even in Chhattisgarh, a dozen bills are stuck at Raj Bhawan," Baghel told reporters. On Friday, the Supreme Court did some tough talking over the governors of Punjab and Tamil Nadu (Purohit and RN Ravi) delaying assent to bills passed by the state legislatures, cautioning the Raj Bhawan occupant in Chandigarh against "playing with fire" and observing his counterpart in ...

Rajnath slams Chhattisgarh govt for scams, religious conversion; hails PM

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said India's character has never been to attack or occupy even an inch land of another nation but it has taken a resolve to not spare anyone if it is harmed. Singh, who addressed rallies in Sitapur, Bharatpur-Sonhat and Patan Assembly seats in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, also attacked the Congress over corruption and for being a "zero" when it came to carrying out development. Singh said the menace of Naxalism will be eliminated in the next three to four years and also promised to prohibit forced religious conversion if the Bharatiya Janata Party is voted to power in Chhattisgarh, where the second phase of polls will be held on November 17. India has emerged as a powerful nation under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with its economy, which is now at fifth place in the world, poised to become the third largest in the next three years behind the United States of America and China, the Defence Minister said at a gathering in ...

Won't campaign in poll-bound states: Sukhu returns to Shimla post treatment

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, who was undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, arrived in Shimla on Saturday after 15 days. Talking to the media persons here, Sukhu said he would not campaign in the poll-bound states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana as doctors have advised him to rest for two months. He will, however, start working and meeting with people, the chief minister added. On poll prospects of the Congress, Sukhu said the party was strong in the states going to polls and would emerge victorious. Voting for the Mizoram assembly polls is already over. "The doctors have advised me to take rest, eat light meals at regular intervals, divide work and not to work in continuity without a break," he said. Reiterating that Himachal Pradesh will be made self-reliant in four years and the most prosperous state in the country in the next 10 years, Sukhu said, "We have to get back to work." He added

IAF made 404 sorties to ferry polling staff during Chhattisgarh elections

The Indian Air Force conducted 404 sorties with eight MI-17 choppers for six days, ferrying polling parties along with voting machines in Naxal-affected Bastar division during the recently held first phase of Chhattisgarh polls, a senior election official said on Friday. Twelve constituencies of Bastar division were among 20 assembly segments in Chhattisgarh that went to the polls in the first phase on November 7. A high voter turnout of 78 per cent was recorded in these 20 seats. The Chhattisgarh Chief Electoral Officer wrote on X on Friday, Defying all challenges, the Indian Air Force (IAF) conducted 404 sorties with Eight MI 17s, securely ferrying 853 polling team members to and from 43 locations, enabling a successful electoral process in a tough LWE-affected region. Salute to the India Air Force. More than 860 polling party members were sent through MI-17 helicopters to 156 polling stations in five districts of Bastar division Sukma, Bijapur, Kanker, Dantewada and Narayanpur

EC removes 3 election observers for misconduct in MP, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram

The Election Commission on Friday removed three poll observers from duty for "misconduct" and violation of the code of ethics, sources said. The action was taken against two general observers deployed in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh and an expenditure observer in Mizoram, they said. In place of IAS officer Laltinkhuma Franklin in Chhattisgarh's Dantewara assembly constituency, Anurag Patel, another IAS officer, has been deployed as general observer. IAS officer R Girish will replace IAS officer Udaya Narayan Das as general observer in Madhya Pradesh Seoni Malwa and Hoshangabad assembly constituencies. IRS officer Gaurav Awasthi, an expenditure observer deployed in Lunglei district in Mizoram, has been removed. Sources said they were removed for "misconduct" and violation of the observers' code of ethics. They said a "recordable caution" in their service books has also been ordered by the commission. Elections to the 40-member Mizoram assembly was held November 7. The first-

On CM Baghel's home turf, it is a battle between 'kaka' and 'bhatija'

On a dusty road undergoing repairs in Patan, a slogan reads Is baar kaka par bhatija bhari' (this time nephew will triumph over uncle), summing up the keenly watched contest in this constituency represented by Chhattisgarh Chief minister Bhupesh Baghel. Vijay Baghel, the BJP MP representing the Durg Lok Sabha seat Patan is one of the assembly segments of Durg is taking on the CM, though not for the first time. Vijay Baghel (64) is a distant nephew of Bhupesh Baghel (62). Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J) state president Amit Jogi, son of former CM Ajit Jogi, is seeking votes against family politics of kaka' and bhatija', seeking Patan a triangular contest. So far, someone from the family (of Baghels) has been winning here, he says at a public meeting. A total of 16 candidates, including AAP's Amit Kumar Hirvani, are in the fray in Patan, which will go to polls along with 69 other seats in the second and last phase on November 17. As Congress' promises of farm loan waiver and Rs 3

Chhattisgarh Assembly polls: BJP will win 1st phase of voting, says Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the first phase of voting in Chhattisgarh shows that the BJP will form the government in the state

Naxalism will be eliminated from Chhattisgarh if BJP comes to power: Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the people of Chhattisgarh should vote to form a "double-engine" government (the BJP at the Centre and in Chhattisgarh)

Chhattisgarh: Green chillis bloom in Bastar district's red corridors

Growing demand and better returns force farmers to cultivate chillis

Chhattisgarh election: BJP will end naxalism if voted to power, says Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said if the BJP comes to power in Chhattisgarh, Naxalism will be eliminated from the state in five years. Addressing a rally in Jashpur constituency of Chhattisgarh, Shah slammed Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel-led dispensation saying while 'Chandrayaan' was to the moon under the central government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the point where it landed was named 'Shivshakti', the Congress government in the state indulged in betting in the name of 'Mahadev'. Further targeting the state Congress government, Shah said rampant religious conversion took place in the last five years. Shah appealed to the people to form a "double-engine" government (BJP at the Centre and in Chhattisgarh) and assured that Naxalism will be eliminated from the state in five years. The rule of "corruption" prevailed in Chhattisgarh in the last five years, he said, claiming the Baghel government indulged in several "scams worth thousands of crores of ...

Chhattisgarh elections: Congress candidate's convoy attacked in Bemetara

Chhattisgarh minister and Congress candidate Guru Rudra Kumar's convoy was attacked with stones in Bemetara on Wednesday